The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-12-04
" THE assembly Of creeping things
and all the creation.
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9-Ea, the Lord of the Illustrious
Face, the multitude of creeping things
he made strong.
This inscription, as will be seen,
bears in parts strong resemblance
and a dissimilarity to the Bible YER
sion.
The lower part of this tablet is in
such mutilated state that the trans
lators have not been able to make out
| the inscriptions. It is here, probably,
that the account of the creation of man
was inscribed, and it is the hope of the
translators that other: fragments Of
this tablet will be unearthed, with the
help of which they may be able to de-
cipher the story. The fragments OF the
lines that they are able to make, out
read:
For thy redemption did He create
mankind; even He, the Merciful One,
with whom is life"
In another corner are the words:
"Mayest thou be great, for noble
companion art thou Let thy manhood
be increased. With the dominion of
all the gods I have caused thy hand
to be filed
If this applies to the creation of
man, as it certainly appears to, if is
a remarkable parallel to the biblical
account, although it is, of course, in
very different style of wording.
Further down on the tablet are the
still more wonderful words:
woman from the flank of man was
called.'
Which certainly accords with the
creation of Eve as recorded in the
Bible
Making Day and Night.
The fifth tablet relates to the crea-
ton of the heavenly bodies and of the
making of day and night. 1t CORE
spends with the fourth day in the
biblical account. The first twenty-four
lines only have been translated:
He made pleasant the position of
the great gods.
2-The consultations he arranged
them; the double stars he fixed.
3-He ordained the year and appoint
| ed the zodiac signs over it.
1.-The twelve months of consultations
by threes he fixed.
5-From the day when the year COM
menced to it's close.
6-He established the position of the
crossing stars, and for the seasons
their bounds
Mot to make fault or error of any
kind.
with himself he fixed.
9-He opened great gates on either
side.
10-The bolts he made strong on the
right hand and left
lin the mass he made stairway.
12-The illuminator he caused to shine
to rule at the night
13-He appointed him to establish the
night until the coming forth of the
day.
14-Sayipg: Each month without fail
by the disk keep thou watch"
15-"At the beginning of the month,
at the rising of the night"
16-"Horns shall shine forth to an
nounce the night
17-"One the seventh day to a disk it
fills up
18-"Open thou and cause re rays of
thy face to shine"
19-At that time the sun on the hori-
zon of heaven at thy coming.
20-Shalt divide the form.
21-'Toward the path of the sun thou
drawest near"
22-"Then the shining of the sun shall
change"
Seeking his path"
24-"Set thou as by law decreed."
It will be noticed that these tablets.
which are two thousand years older
| than the Bible, give a much more de-
tailed account of the creation than the
| Old Testament does.
| Creation of the Sun.
The portion of the tablet relating to
the creation of the sun speaks of it as
'the child of the moon,' and further
|
10 Lord, illumination of the dark
ness, opener of the face of the sky.
2-Merciful God, who setteth up the
fallen, who keepeth the weak.
3-Unto thy light turn the great gods.
1.-The spirits of earth gaze toward thy
| face.
5-The tongues of the host as one cry
thou directest.
6-Smiling, their heads they look to
the light Of the sun.
Like wife thou art-glad and
makin g, glad.
8-Thou art the light in the vault of
the far-off heavens.
9-Thou art the eye center of all the
widespread lands. ~.
10-Men from far and .. near behold
thee and rejoice. r.. ~. r..
1.-THE great gods smelt the sweet
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12-He who hath not turned his head
to sin, thou wilt prosper.
13-He shall eat of thy food and be
blessed by thee.
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