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38a). with numerous variants not noted here. Edition: Ebeling, AGH, 20-22. Translation: von Soden, SAHG, 296-297 no. 41; Seux, Hymnes, 274-275. Literature: Mayer, UFBG, Enlil Ia. *Notes to Text: (25) Walker, AfO 24 (1973)~124-125. (30) Mayer, OrNS 46 (1977). 389. I. Variant omits these two lines and ends here with an incomplete one: At your sublime command, which cannot be altered, And your eternal assent, which cannot be changed ... 560 111. "' It invokes Enlil by various epithets, seeking to bring about his reconciliation with his people (the "black-headed folk," or Mesopotamians) and to restore order in the land.

Before you I have become pure as the grass, I have become clean and pure as soap plant. Her spell, that of the wicked sorceress, (15) I. Variant: "silence" (Meier, Maqld, 66). According to CAD Q, 304b. "silence" is an erroneous variant; according to AHw, 925b, 927b, "skeins" is erroneous. Tying thread on the mouth as a metaphor for blocking speech and effectiveness is known in other magical contexts though not filling the mouth with thread. " For a magical procedure that involves stopping up a mouth with wool, see Falkenstein, ZA 45 (1939)~26.

0 Ea, Shamash, and Marduk, come to my help! Let me be clean in your presence, let me be pure before you. 55 I I, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, Whose (personal) god is so-and-so, Whose (personal) goddess is so-and-so, Against whom evil signs keep occurring, I am afraid, frightened, and terrified! Let me escape the evil (portended by) an eclipse of the moon, The evil (portended by) an eclipse of the sun, The evil (portended by) the stars (and) the stars of Ea, Anu, and Enlil, The evil (portended by) the planets which approach the path of the stars, (20) Text: Myhrman, PBS I / I 14 1-23; W.

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