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165 sister-wife had brought forth." In telltale verses she announced her decision to cross the battle lines and bring an end to the hostilities: To the House Where Cord-Measuring begins. Where Asar his eyes to Anu raised, I shall go. The cord I will cut off, for the sake of the warring gods. gins," the Great Pyramid! Ninurta was at first astounded by her decision to "enter alone the Enemyland"; but since her mind was made up, he provided her with "clothes which should make her unafraid" (of the radiation left by the beams?). As she neared the pyramid, she addressed Enki: "She shouts to him . . . she beseeches him." The ex- changes are lost by the breaks in the tablet; but Enki agreed to sur- render the pyramid to her: The House that is like a heap, that which I have as a pile raised up— its mistress you may be. There was, however, a condition: The surrender was subject to a final resolution of the conflict until "the destiny-determining time" shall come. Promising to relay Enki's conditions, Ninharsag wee aa a The events that followed are recorded in part in the Lugal-e epic and in other fragmentary texts. But they are most dramatically de- scribed in a text titled I Sing the Song of the Mother of the Gods. Surviving in great length because it was copied and _ recopied throughout the ancient Near East, the text was first reported by P. Dhorme in his study La Souveraine des Dieux. It is a poetic text in praise of Ninmah (the "Great Lady") and her role as Mammi (Mother of the Gods") on both sides of the battle lines. Opening with a call upon "the comrades in arms and the com- batants" to listen, the poem briefly describes the warfare and its participants, as well as its nearly global extent. On the one side were "the firstborn of Ninmah" (Ninurta) and Adad, soon joined by Sin and later on by Inanna/Ishtar. On the opposing side are listed Nergal, a god referred to as "Mighty, Lofty One"— Ra/Marduk—and the "God of the two Great Houses" (the two The Pyramid Wars Her destination was the "House Where Cord-Measuring be- went to address Enlil.