Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous
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Where peacefully for them, the sun-light gleams.
At last the foe is scattered o'er the plain, And Accad fiercely slays the flying men; When Izdubar beholds the victory won By Accad's grand battalions of the sun, His bugle-call the awful carnage stays, Then loud the cry of victory they raise. [Footnote 1: The above elegy is an Assyrian fragment remarkably similar to one of the psalms of the Jewish bible, and I believe it belongs to the Irdubar epic (W.A. I. IV. 19, No. 3; also see "Records of the Past," vol. xi. p. 160).] [Footnote 2: "Ul-bar," Bel's temple.] [Footnote 3: "Nin-a-rad," literally "servant of Nin," or "Nin-mar-ad," "Lord of the city of Marad."] [Footnote 4: "Nin," the god of the chase and war, or lord.] [Footnote 5: "Tar-u-ma-ni izzu sar-ri," "son of the faith, the fire-king."] [Footnote 6: "Nuk-khu," darkness (god of darkness).] [Footnote 7: "Nin-a-zu," god of fate and death.] [Footnote 8: "Mam-mit," or "Mam-mi-tu," goddess of fate.] [Footnote 9: "Dragons," gods of chaos and death.] |
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