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52. For that they were planning evil against the gods, his children.
53. Mummu embraced his neck ...
54. He took him on his knee, he kissed him ...
55. They (i.e. Mummu and Apsu) planned the cursing in the
assembly,
56. They repeated the curses to the gods their eldest sons.
57. The gods made answer ...
58. They began a lamentation...
59. [Endowed] with understanding, the prudent god, the exalted one,
60. Ea, who pondereth everything that is, searched out their [plan].
61. He brought it to nought (?), he made the form of everything to
stand still.
62. He recited a cunning incantation, very powerful and holy.
[In the British Museum tablets lines 63-108 are either wanting
entirely, or are too broken to translate, and the last 130 lines of
the Berlin fragment are much mutilated. The fragments of text show
that Ea waged war against Apsu and Mummu. Ea recited an incantation
which caused Apsu to fall asleep. He then "loosed the joints" of
Mummu, who in some way suffered, but he was strong enough to attack Ea
when he turned to deal with Apsu. Ea overcame both his adversaries and
divided Apsu into chambers and laid fetters upon him. In one of the
chambers of Apsu a god was begotten and born. According to the
Ninevite theologians Ea begat by his wife, who is not named, his son
Marduk, and according to the theologians of the City of Ashur, Lakhmu
begat by his wife Lakhamu a son who is no other than Anshar, or
Ashur. A nurse was appointed to rear him, and he grew up a handsome
child, to the great delight of his father. He had four ears and four
eyes, a statement which suggests that he was two-headed, and resembled
the Latin god Janus.]
109. They formed a band, and went forth to battle to help Ti�mat.
110. They were exceedingly wroth, they made plots by day and by night
without ceasing.
111. They offered battle, fuming and raging.
112. They set the battle in array, they uttered cries[1] of hostility,
[Footnote 1: Literally, "they excited themselves to hostility."]
113. Ummu-Khubur,[1] who fashioned all things,
[Footnote 1: A title of Ti�mat.]
114. Set up the unrivalled weapon, she spawned huge serpents,
115. Sharp of tooth, pitiless in attack (?)
116. She filled their bodies with venom instead of blood,
117. Grim, monstrous serpents, arrayed in terror,
118. She decked them with brightness, she fashioned them in exalted
forms,
119. So that fright and horror might overcome him that looked upon
them,
120. So that their bodies might rear up, and no man resist their
attack,
121. She set up the Viper, and the Snake, and the god Lakhamu,
122. The Whirlwind, the ravening Dog, the Scorpion-man,
123. The mighty Storm-wind, the Fish-man, the horned Beast
(Capricorn?)
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