Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by the religion of the ancient Babylonians / by A. H. Sayce.

  • Archibald Sayce
Date:
1898
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    52b 15. Its awning is of the palm-wood of Dilvun. 16. Carrying away the heart is the canal, 17. rejoicing its heart is the rising sun. 18. Its house, its ascent, is a mountain that gives rest to the l/eart 19. The ship of the god of Eridu is destiny. 20. Dav-kina is the goddess who promises (it) life. 21. Merodach is the god who pronounces (its) good name, 22. The god who benefits the house makes it go in Eridu, 23. Nin-nangar, the bright one, the mighty workman of heaven, 24. with the pure and blissful hand has pronounced the word of life: 25. ' May the ship before thee cross the canal! 26. May the ship behind thee sail over its mouth ! 27. May the heart within thee rejoicing make holiday (?) Col. ii, 2. Pour out on the sixth day . , , , 3. pure water (in) the temple of the lower ground .... 4, (Make) prostration towards the gate of the setting (sun) .... 6. From the temple of Borsippa take (thy) departure, and .... 6. his hand the gossamer (?) cloth, the white cloth (and) the fillet'' 7. binds, and with a band (1) he covers (his) seat. 8. He heaps up the herbs and the dress; he offers the sacrificial goblet, 9. [^Recent lacuna.] The man that is made pure, the god who created him goes a second time, 10. [Recent lacuna.] (When) they have ended, the god inclines over the seat. 11. [Recent lacuna^ Stretch the linen and tie it about the round {4alc}Miaru) cup. 12. Set it down; a second time the herbs and a mountain (?) dress 13. heap up (and) cut (on) the altar; offer the sacrificial goblet, and the robe of a herald; 14. on the left side of the man that is purified thou must bind with dark cloth, white cloth 15. (and) a fillet; on his left hand thou must bind a barsik dress. 16. [Recent lacuna.] The green corn his hand must cut. 17. [Recent lacuna.] Dipping (his hand in water) he says: '0 god of gold, the lusty one, 18. (it is) Ea, who verily has made the man that has been purified; 19. I have not made (him).' And the workman who has made the great wooden tablet, ' In R 204 (K 2061), 20, the Accadian mali is interpreted by j'mWiwiv ' Pusihhu (W,A.I. v. 14, 15), Aram, pesiqyd.