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| Usacuracao (OP) User ID: 23649450 09/12/2012 12:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Anshar Speaks To Kakka Lo! Anshar made his voice heard, and addressed his speech to Kakka his Yahweh, "0 Kakka, Yahweh who pleases me! I shall send you to Lahmu, Mars and Lahamu, Venus. You shall know how to probe, you are not skilled in speaking, Have the Anunnagi, my fathers, brought you before me; Let all the Anunnagi be brought to me. Let there be conversation, let them sit at a banquet,Let them eat grain, let them drink choice wine, And then let them decree a destiny for Murduk, their champion. Set off, Kakka, and go and stand before them, and everything that I am about to tell you, repeat to them. Anshar, your son has sent me, He has told me to report his heart's message, I sent ANU, but he was unable to face her alone, Nudimmud panicked and turned back. Then Murduk, sage of the Anunnagi, your son, came forward. He wanted of his own free will to confront the inhabitants of Tiamat. He addressed his words to me, 'If indeed I am to be your champion, To defeat the inhabitants of Tiamat and save your lives, Convene the council, name a special fate, Sit joyfully together mUbshu-Ukkinakku: And let me, in my own utterance, fix fate instead of you. Whatever I create shall never be altered! Let a decree from my lips never be revoked, or never changed!' Hurry and decree your destiny for him quickly, So that he may go, and face your formidable enemy!" Kakka set of and went on his way. Before Lahmu, Mars, and Lahamu, Venus, the Anunnagi, and his fathers, he prostrated himself, and kissed the ground in front of them. Then straightened up, and stood there and spoke to them, saying: "Anshar, your son has sent me. He has told me to report his personal message, that they founded a princely shrine for him." He took up residence as ruler before his fathers. "You are honored among the great Anunnagi. Your destiny is unequaled, your word has the power of ANU! 0 Murduk, you are honored among the great Anunnagi. Your destiny is unequaled, your word has the power of ANU! From this day onwards your command shall not be altered. Yours is the power to exalt and abase. May your utterance be law, and your word never be falsified. None of the Anunnagi shall transgress your limits. May endowment, required for the Anunnagi's shl'ines, Wherever they have temples, be established for your place. 0 Murduk, you are our champion! We hereby give you sovereignty over all of the whole universe. Sit in the assembly and your word shall be pre-eminent! May your weapons never miss the mark, and may they smash your enemies. a Murduk, spare the life of him who trusts in you, But drain the life of the beings who have espoused evil!" They set up in their midst of that one constellation, And then they addressed Murduk, their son, "May your decree, a Murduk, impress the Anunnagi! Command to destroy and to recreate, and let it be so! Speak and let the constellation vanish! Speak to it again and the constellation was recreated. He spoke to it again, and the constellation was recreated. When the Anunnagi, his fathers, saw how effective his utterance was, They rejoiced, they proclaimed, "Murduk is Ruled" They invested him with scepter, throne, and staff-of-office. They gave him an unfaceable weapon to crush the foe. "Go, and cut off the life of the inhabitants of Tiamat! Let the winds bear her blood to us as good news!" The Anunnagi, his fathers, thus, decreed the destiny of Murduk, And set him on the path of peace and obedience. He fashioned a bow, designated it as his weapon, And he feathered the arrow, and set it in the string. He lifted up a mace and carried it in his right hand, Slung the bow and quiver at his side, And he put lightning in front of him, His body was filled with an ever-blazing flame. He made a net to encircle Tiamat within it, Marshalled the four winds so that no part of her could escape: South Wind, North Wind, East Wind, West Wind, The gift of his grandfather, AND, he kept them close to the net at his side. He created the Imhullu-wind, evil wind, the tempest, the whirlwind, The forcefields called the four winds, the seven winds, like tornadoes, the unfaceable facing wind. He released the winds which he had created, and 7 crafts they were. They advanced behind him to make turmoil inside Tiamat. Murduk, the ruler, raised the flood-weapon, his great weapon, And mounted the frightful, unfaceable storm-chariot. He had yoked to it a team of 4, and he had harnessed it to its side. "Slayer", "pitiless", "racer", and "flyer"; Their lips were drawn back, their teeth carried poison. They know not exhaustion, they can only devastate. He stationed on his right, fiercesome fight and conflict, On the left, the battle to knock down every contender prepared to defend. Clothed in a cloak of awesome armor, His head was crowned with a terrible radiance. The ruler set out and took the road, And set his face towards Tiamat who raged out of control. In his lips he gripped a spell, In his hand he grasped a herb to counter poison. Then they thronged about him, the Anunnagi thronged about him; The Anunnagi, his fathers, thronged about him. The ruler drew near and looked into the middle of Tiamat: He was trying to find out the strategy of Kingu, her lover. As he looked, his mind became confused, His will crumbled and his actions were muddled. As for the Anunnagi his helpers, who marched at his side, When they saw the warrior, the leader, their looks were strained. Tiamat casted her spell. She did not even turn her neck. In her lips she was holding falsehood, lies, wheedling, "How powerful is your attacking force, 0 Yahweh of the Aluhum! The whole assembly of them have gathered to your place!" The Yahweh of the Aluhum lifted up the flood-weapon, his great weapon. He sent a message to Tiamat who feigned goodwill, saying: "Why are you so friendly on the surface. When your depths conspire to muster a battle force? Just because the sons were noisy and disrespectful to their fathers, Should you, who gave them birth, reject compassion? You named Kingu as your lover, You appointed him to rites of AND-power, which were wrongfully his. You sought out evil for Anshar, ruler of the Anunnagi, You have compounded your wickedness against the Anunnagi, my fathers! Let your host prepare! Let them gird themselves with your weapons! Stand forth, and you and I shall do single combatl" When Tiamat heard this, She went wild, and she lost her temper. Tiamat screamed aloud in a paSSIOn, Her lower parts shook together from the depths. She recited the incantation and kept casting her spell. Meanwhile, the Anunnagi of battle were sharpening their weapons. Face to face they came, Tiamat and Murduk, sage of the Anunnagi. They engaged in combat, they closed for battle. The ruler spread his net and made it encircle her, To her face he dispatched the Imhullu-wind, which had been behind: Tiamat opened her mouth to swallow it, And he forced in the Imhullu-wind so that she could not close her lips. Fierce winds distended her belly; Her insides were constipated and |
| Usacuracao (OP) User ID: 23649450 09/12/2012 01:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | she stretched her mouth wide. He shot an arrow which pierced her belly, Split her down the middle and slit her heart, That vanquished extinguished her life. He threw down her corpse and stood on top of her. When he had slain Tiamat, the leader, He broke up her regiments; and her assembly was scattered. Then the Maldekians, her helpers, who had marched at her side, Began to tremble, panicked, and turned tail. Although he allowed them to cometh out, and spared their lives, They were surrounded, and they could not flee. Then he tied them up, and smashed their weapons. They were thrown into the net and sat there ensnared. They cowered back, filled with woe. They had to bear his punishment, confined to prison. And as for the dozens of creatures, covered in fearsome rays, The gang of demons who all marched on her right, He fixed them with nose-ropes, and tied their arms. He trampled their battle-filth, stomping them beneath him. As for Kingu, who had once been the greatest among them, He defeated him, and counted him among the dead planets, Which rested from him was the Tablet of Destinies, which werewrongfully his, And he sealed it with his own seal, and pressed it to his breast. When he had defeated, and killed his enemies, And he had proclaimed the submissive Tiamat foe his slave, And he had set up the triumphal cry of Anshar over all the enemy, And he had achieved the desire of Murduk the warrior. He strengthened his hold over the captive Maldekians, And to Tiamat, whom he had ensnared, he turned back. The great ship Nibiru caused her to be trampled, and the lower part of Tiamat was shattered, With his unsparing mace, he smashed her skull, Severed the arteries of her blood, And made the North wind carry it off as good news. His fathers saw it and were jubilant: They rejoiced, Arranged to greet him with presents, greetings and gifts. The ruler rested, and inspected her corpse. He divided the monstrous shape and created marvels from it. He sliced her in half like a fish for drying: Half of her he put up to the roof of the sky as a new Tiamat, now called Orb, And he drew an asteroid belt across the skies from the particles of her lower half, and he made a guard hold it. He arranged her waters so that they could not escape. He crossed the heavens and sought out a shrine; He leveled Afsu, the sun, which is the dwelling of Nudimmud, and he removed his rule of the solar system. The ruler Murduk measured the dimensions of Afsu, the sun. The large temple Eshgalla, which he built in its image, was Esharra, the inner world created in the belly of Tiamat called Aghaarta and Shamballah: In the great shrine Esharra, which he had created as the sky, he founded a cult centress for AND, Enlil, and Nudimmud. |
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