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

on TO tell of the maledictions of a deit
uttered against the sinful human race
ana says:
| That he has. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
| That he should kill; that he should de
| SrOy Observation-Disclosures.
In the morning that he should rain dowl
the determination NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
| That during the night he should proloni
! That he should rain down the inunda
| ton OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
The plain he will make it's ruin great: thu
| city NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
! That which Ramman shall have accom-
plished in the city.
| He says he will overturn the land.
| He raises a cry Observation-Disclosures.
| The code will not fear ....................
Then follow some lines too mutilated Il
| read. The seventh column continues the
| story and says that a friendly god will
be on hand at the destruction OF the world
who will stretch out a helping hand tc
| men," Safety will be secured, for a pro.
longation of the seed of men, beasts and
all living things. by means of a ship. This
ship is to be built by man CNoah), who
with hi sfamiIy and the animals he will
| take with him into it. are to be the sole
survivors of the deluge that is to sweep
the earth. The writing says:
Ea spake the word,
And said to me:
Why wilt thou make men to die. ........
1 will reach out my hand to men...........
The deluge of which thou speakest......
Whatever 1t may be, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
/, shall have produced in vain;
He shall be informed of it,
To the end that he build. Observation-Disclosures.
And he shall beget OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
And they may enter into the ship.
That Pirnaptism CNoah) take the oar.
That he may come. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
That he may take NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
That he Observation-Disclosures.
Then come more mutilated lines. AT
this point George Smiths tablet takes up
the story in the form of Noah's personal
recital of all the wonderful circumstances
of the flood after the great occurrence
was over and he and his family were saw
ed. Coming from Nineveh, it is a some
what different version, but it carries the
AiANAClAl dNSOuiiI iA54Ab SliOAiS' %NOeNiA o1y D
Let me reveal to thee the story of my
preservation
And the hidden thing of the gods let me
tell to thee.
The city of Surippak. which thou knowest
is placed on the Euphrates,
That city was very ancient when the
gods within it,
To make a deluge the great gods brought
their hearts,
Their father and their king; their
Counsellor the Warrior Bell: their
Throne bearer, the god Ada, and
The god Ea, the lord of the underworld,
Repeated their decree
this destiny hearing as he said to me
o man of Surippaki son of Ubarratutu,
Destroy the house and build a ship
For I will destroy the seed and the life
Cause them to go up into the ship all seed
that hath life,
The ship which thou shalt make - Gu
bits its length in measure.
cubits the contents of it's breadth
and height
Above the deep: roof it over.
I understood and said to Ea, my lord,
The building of the ship which thou COM
mandest
If it be made by me.
Then will laugh at me, the children of
the people. and the old men.
Ea opened his mouth and spake to me his
servant,
If they laugh at thee, thou shalt say to
them.
Every one who has turned from thee
Shall be punished, for the protection of
the gods is over me.
I will judge my judgment upon all above
and below.
Close not the ship
Until the season when I shall send thee
word saying:
Enter the ship and close the door,
In the interior OF it. thy grain, thy fur
niture, tn yweaIth. thy goods. thy
man-servants and maid-servants and
the young men,
The cattle of the field and the animals
of the field. as many as I would pre-
1 will send to thee: then make firm thy
door.
The reverent and holy one opened his
mouth ana Spdhe 10 Ed, MS
No one has made such ship
On the ground TO hold all things
Tho form of the ship let me see.
And on the ground I will make the ship
which thou commanded.
On the fifth day two sides were raised.
In its enclosure ChulD fourteen ribs,
Also fourteen they number above.
I placed its roof and enclosed 1t.
sixthly. I made 1t firm; seventhly. d.
vided its passages:
Elghthly fits interior 7 examined.
Openings to the water stopped;
I searched for cracks and the wanting
parts fixed;
Three sari OF bitumen I poured over tho
outside;
Three sari OF bitumen poured over the
interior;
Three sari OF men bearers who carried
chests on their heads.
/ kept saros of chests for my people TO
eat
Two sari of chests I divided among the
boatmen.
To the gods I caused oxen to be sacri-
feed.
[ gathered like the waters of the river.
And food as the dust of the earth
In receptacles my hand placed
With the help Of the Sun God the ship
was completed:
All was made strong,
And above and gelow the tackling was
fixed:
Then of my possessions I took two
thirds:
All had Of silver gathered together.
All / had Of gold I gathered together the |