The Second tablet of Creation (British Museum 40559) obverse - The religion of Babylonia and Assyria especially in its relations to Israel (1908) (14759545156)

The Second tablet of Creation (British Museum 40559) obverse
Identifier: religionofbabyl00roge (find matches)
Title: The religion of Babylonia and Assyria especially in its relations to Israel
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Rogers, Robert William, 1864-
Subjects: Judaism
Publisher: New York, Eaton
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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monster serpents,115 Sharp of tooth and merciless in carnage; (With venom instead of) blood she filled (their) bodies.Terrible dragons she clothed with terror,With splendor she decked them, she made them of lofty appearance.Whoever beheld them, terror overcame him,120 Their bodies reared up and none could withstand their attack.She set up serpents, and reptiles, and the monster Lakhamu,And hurricanes and furious dogs, and scorpion menAnd mighty tempests, and fish men and (rams);They bore pitiless weapons, fearless of the fight.125 (Puissant) were her orders, (none) could resist them.In all, eleven monsters of this kind, she created.Among the gods who were her firstborn, who formed her troop,She exalted Kingu; among them she made him great.To march before the troops, to lead the throng,130 To seize the weapons,1 to advance, to begin the attack,The primacy in the combat, the control of the fightShe intrusted to him, in costly raiment she made him sit. To give the battle signal.—King.
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