Subject: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World; Akkadian Canonical Compositions; Royal Focus; Royal Hymns
A Late Piece of Constructed Mythology Relevant to the Neo-Assyrian and Middle Assyrian Coronation Hymn and Prayer (1.146)
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Their faces were turned away […
Bēlet-ilī, their lady, was frightened by their silence;
she spoke out to Ea, the exorcist:
| (5) | “The toil of the gods has become wearisome to them! |
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Their faces are turned away, and enmity has broken out!
Let us create a figure of clay …