Lectures On the Origin And Growth of Religion As Illustrated By the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians
Lectures On the Origin And Growth of Religion As Illustrated By the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians
A H Archibald Henry Sayce
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. . my hand. 8. Li my right hand, the god who binds the hosts of the firmament I bear. 9. In my left hand the god who slays the hosts of the firmament I bear. 1 This is the Semitic paraphrase, the translator having punned upon the resemblance of the Semitic edri, " winds," to the Accadian «orra, " the host* of the firmament 1 ' The original Accadian text is literally, " which to the dwelling-place of the hosts of the firmament turn the head." «Iote»Uy,«rtone of light* 482 APPENDIX IV. 10. The S...on-god of fifty faces, the falchion which proclaims me as Ann, I bear. 11. The hero who destroys the mountain, the Sun-god who lifts not up the offering, I hear. 12. The weapon, which like a monster (tuumgaMi) devours the corpses (of the dead), I bear. 13. The destroyer of the mountain, the glorious weapon of Aim, I bear. 14. The entailer (musaknis) of the mountain, the fish with seven fins, I bear. 15. The offspring of battle, the flail of the hostile land, I bear.* 1 m. W. A.I. ii. 19. No.
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