10th Anniversary Celebration

10th Anniversary Celebration of the State Archives of Assyria project, University of Helsinki, 7 September 1995

The One Come Forth On High I Will Hail
Reine Rimón & her Hot Papas

The Mystic Dance of Ishtar
The Masrah Dance Group

Assyrian Elegy
Reine Rimón & her Hot Papas

The One Come Forth On High I Will Hail – Hymn to Inanna

Reine Rimón & her Hot Papas

Reine Rimón, vocals
Hannu Pulkkinen, clarinet
Matti Iiramo, trumpet
Robert de Godzinsky, bass and sousaphone
Jukka Järvelä, banjo
Ilpo Rahtu, piano
Alpo Collanus, drums

Lyrics

(W. H. Römer, Sumerische Königshymnen der Isin-Zeit, Leiden: Brill, 1965, ss. 128-135, with modifications)

nin-gal an-na-ra silim-ma ga-na-ab-bé-en
nu-u₈-gig an-ta éd-a-ra silim-ma ga-na-ab-bé-en
nin-gal an-na ^dinanna-ra silim-ma ga-na-ab-bé-en

izi-ĝar kug an-e si-a-ra
sù-de₆-èm ^dinanna-ra utu-gim zalag-ge-ra
nin-gal an-na ^dinanna-ra silim-ma ga-na-ab-bé-en

nu-u₈-gig nin ní-gùr-ru ^da-nun-na-ke₄-ne
nir-ĝál an-ki si-gal si-a
dumu-gal ^dsuen-na ^dinanna-ra silim-ma ga-na-ab-bé-en

nam-maḫ-a-na nam-gal-la-na nam-nir-ĝál bùluĝ-ĝá-na
an-usan_x^na-na dalla éd-a-na
izi-ĝar kug an-e si-a-ra

^dnanna ^dutu-gim an-na gub-bu-na
sig-ta igi-nim-šè kur-kur-re zu-àm
nu-u₈-gig an-na-ka nam-gal-la-na

in-nin-ra šìr-re-eš nu-u₈-gig an-ta

Translation

(Thorkild Jacobsen, The Harps that once…, Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1987, pp. 112-124, with modifications)

The one come forth on high, I will hail!
The holy one, come forth on high, I will hail!
The great queen of heaven, Inanna, I will hail!

The pure torch lit in the sky,
the heavenly light, lighting like day,
the great queen of heaven, Inanna, I will hail!

The holy one, queen awe-laden of the Anunnaki,
noblest one in heaven and earth, crowned with great horns,
oldest child of the Moon, Inanna, I will hail!

Of her grandeur, of her greatness, of her exceeding nobility,
of her brilliant coming forth in the evening sky,
of her lighting up in the sky, a pure torch,

Of her stepping up onto the sky like Moon and Sun,
noted by all lands from south to north,
of the greatness of the holy one of heaven,

To the young lady I will sing!

The Mystic Dance of Ishtar

The Masrah Dance Group

Tuija Rinne, choreography
Kristiina Ilmonen, mustic
Jaana Lindroos & Sirpa Toljander, dresses

Assyrian elegy

Reine Rimón & her Hot Papas