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10. Whatsoever Ti�mat had devised he repeated unto him,
11. Mother Ti�mat who gave us birth hath sown these things.
12. She hath set in order her assembly, she rageth furiously,
13. All the gods have joined themselves to her.
14. They march by her side together with those whom ye have created.
15. They formed a band and went forth to battle to help Ti�mat,
16. They were exceedingly wroth, they made plots by day and by night
without ceasing,
17. They offered battle, fuming and raging,
18. They set the battle in array, they uttered cries of defiance.
19. Ummu-Khubur,[1] who fashioned all things,
[Footnote 1: See above.]
20. Set up the unrivalled weapon, she spawned huge serpents
21. Sharp of tooth, pitiless in attack (?)
22. She filled their bodies with venom instead of blood,
23. Grim, monstrous serpents arrayed in terror.
24. She decked them with brightness, she fashioned them in exalted
forms,
25. So that fright and horror might overcome him that looked upon
them,
26. So that their bodies might rear up, and no man resist their
attack.
27. She set up the Viper, and the Snake, and the god Lakhamu,
28. The Whirlwind, the ravening Dog, the Scorpion-man,
29. The Storm-wind, the Fish-man, the Horned Beast.
30. They carried the Weapon which spared not, nor flinched from the
battle.
31. Most mighty were Ti�mat's allies, they could not be resisted.
32. Thus she caused eleven [monsters] of this kind to come into being.
33. Among the gods, her first-born son who had collected her company,
34. That is to say, Kingu, she set on high, she made him the great one
amongst them.
35. Leader of the hosts in battle, disposer of the troops,
36. Bearer of the firmly-grasped weapon, attacker in the fight,
37. He who in the battle is the master of the weapon,
38. She appointed, she made him to sit down in [goodly apparel]
39. [Saying], "I have recited the incantation for thee, I have
magnified thee in the assembly of the gods,
40. "I have filled his [_sic_, read 'thy'] hand with the
sovereignty of the whole company of the gods.
41. "Mayest thou be magnified, thou who art my only spouse,
42. "May the Anunnaki make great thy renown over all of them."
43. She gave him the TABLET OF DESTINIES, she fastened it on his
breast, [saying]--
44. "As for thee, thy command shall not fall empty, what goeth forth
from thy mouth shall be established."
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