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24. "Who made Ti�mat to revolt, to join battle [with thee]."
25. They bound him in fetters [they brought] him before Ea, they
inflicted punishment on him, they let his blood,
26. From his blood he (i.e., Ea) fashioned mankind for the
service of the gods, and he set the gods free.
27. After Ea had fashioned man he ... laid service upon him.
28. [For] that work, which pleased him not, man was chosen: Marduk ...
29. Marduk, the King of the gods, divided ... he set the Anunnaki up
on high.
30. He laid down for Anu a decree that protected [his] heart ... as a
guard.
31. He made twofold the ways on the earth [and in the heavens?]
32. By decrees ...
33. The Anunnaki who ...
34. The Anunnaki ...
35. They spake unto Marduk, their lord, [saying]:
36. "O thou Moon-god[1] (Nannaru), who hast established our splendour,
[Footnote 1: See _Cuneiform Texts_, Part XXIV, Plate 50, where it
is said that the god Sin is "Marduk, who maketh bright the night."]
37. "What benefit have we conferred upon thee?
38. "Come, let us make a shrine, whose name shall be renowned;
39. "Come [at] night, our time of festival, let us take our ease
therein,
40. "Come, the staff shall rule ...
41. "On the day that we reach [thereto] we will take our ease
therein."
42. On hearing this Marduk ...
43. The features of his face [shone like] the day exceedingly.
44. [He said],[1] "Like unto ... Babylon, the construction whereof ye
desire
[Footnote 1: Lines 44 and 45 announce Marduk's determination to build
Babylon.]
45. "I will make ... a city, I will fashion a splendid shrine."
46. The Anunnaki worked the mould [for making bricks], their bricks
were ...
47. In the second year [the shrine was as high as] a hill, and the
summit of E-Sagila reached the [celestial] Ocean.
48. They made the ziggurat[1] [to reach] the celestial Ocean; unto
Marduk, Enlil, Ea [shrines] they appointed,
[Footnote 1: This is the word commonly used for "temple-tower." The
famous ziggurat of E-Sagila here mentioned was built in Seven Stages
or Steps, each probably having its own distinctive colour. It was
destroyed probably soon after the capture of Babylon by Cyrus (539
B.C.) and when Alexander the Great reached Babylon he found it ruins.]
49. It (i.e., the ziggurat) stood before them majestically: at the
bottom and [at the top] they observed its two horns.[1]
[Footnote 1: This is the first known mention of the "horns" of a
ziggurat, and the exact meaning of the word is doubtful.]
50. After the Anunnaki had finished the construction of E-Sagila, and
had completed the making of their shrines,
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