The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

OF that day when I reached the twilight
The day which I had watched for witt
fear.
entered into my ship and closed tn
door,
That 1 might close my ship. to Buzur
Sadairabu,
The boatman, the great house. I CAV
with all its goods.
Then rose the water of dawn at day
light,
heaven;
The Thunder God in the midst Of it thun'
| dered.
Nebo and the Wind God marched in from
The throne bearers (storrn clouds go over
the mountain and plain
The Pestilence God brings with him af.
| Fiction;
The War God goes in front and casts
down:
The angels of earth carry the destruction
In their glory they swept through the
The deluge of the Rain God reaches to
heaven;
The darkened earth to waste is turned;
sweep.
They destroyed all life from the face of
the arth.
To battle against men they brought the
deluge.
Brother saw not brother; men knew one
another;
Even in heaven the gods feared the flood
And sought refuge. They assembled to the
heaven of Anu.
The gods like dogs in kennels lay in heaps
Then cried Istar like a mother
And the great goddess does utter her
speech
"All things to clay are turned,
And the evil which proclaimed in the
presence of the gods.
AS I announced in the presence Of the
gods, is that evil;
AS 1 announced, to evil are devoted all
my people
And though the mother have begotten
my people,
Yet like the spawn of fishes they fill the
sea"
Then the gods were weeping with her
concerning the spirits:
The gods on their thrones were seated
weeping;
Covered with their lips because of the
coming evil.
Six days and nights
The wind, the deluge and the storm go on
sweeping away.
The seventh day when II approached the
rain subsidized, and the great deluge
Which had assailed like a host
Was appeased.
The sea began to dry and the wind and
food ended
I watched the sea making a tossing,
And the whole of mankind had turned to
clay;
Like reeds the corpses foated.
1 opened the window and the light struck
on my face.
I was sad at heart; sat down; wept;
Over my face flowed my tears.
I looked at the regions bounding the sea;
To the twelve points no land was seen.
To the country of Mir floated the ship.
The mountain of Mir stopped the ship
and to pass over 1t was not able.
The first day, the second, the mountain
of Mir the same;
The third day and fourth day the noun
tain OIL NlZlr the same;
The fifth and sixth day the mountain Of
Mir the same;
On the seventh day in the course of it
1 sent forth dove. 1t left. The dove
went and turned.
A resting place it saw not, It returned
back.
I sent forth swallow; it left and turned
and
A resting place it could not see. and it
returned back.
sent forth a raven. and IL left.
The raven went and the corpses (carrion)
which were on the water it saw.
1t did eat-it floated and was carried
await returned not.
/ sent the animals forth to the four winds
of heaven.
Is sacrificed g. sacrifice.
I built the altar on the peak Of the noun.
tain
Adgur. Jars by sevens I placed;
Below them I spread reeds, pine wood
and spices
The gods smelled the odor.
The gods smelled the sweet odor.
The gods like flies over the master the
master the sacrifice gathered.
Then from afar the great goddess in her
approach
Raised up the great zones which Anu had
created as his glory.
Those days I had thought Of and never |
may I forget them
May the gods come to my altar
May Bel not come to my altar
Since he did not reflect and make a
deluge.
And consigned my people TO the deep
When thereupou Bel in his approach
Saw the ship stopped. his heart was filed |
with anger upon gods and spirits.
Let none come forth alive. Let no man |
escape the deep
Adar opened his mouth and spake. He |
says to the Warrior Bel:
except Ea can make design
Even Ea knows and all things he teaches.
Ea opened his mouth and spake. He says |
10 the Warrior Bel:
Oh, thou counsellor Of the gods. why. why /
didst thou reflect and didst make a
deluge.
Let the doer Of sin bear his sin and iet
the transgresso- bear his transgres-
sion.
May the just prince not be cut off. may
the faithful not perish
Instead OF making a deluge. may lions
Increase and men decrease
Instead Of making a deluge, may iackals
increase and men be decreased.
Instead of making deluge. may famine
happen and men be wasted.
Instead Of making a deluge- may pssti-
Ience increase and men decrease.