[Footnote 17: Hea, god of the ocean, the earth's surface, brightness,
etc., and chief protector of men.]

[Footnote 18: "Sab-it," or "Sabitu" ("seven"), the seven winds, gods of
the abyss or ocean.]

[Footnote 19: "Tiamatu," the abyss or ocean.]

[Footnote 20: "Dao-ki-na" or "Dao-ci-na," the wife of Hea, and goddess of
the ocean.]

[Footnote 21: "Amen and Amen and Amen!" The Assyrian word is "Amanu." The
original "ca-ca-ma" ("Amen") concludes the incantation; Heb. [Hebrew:
amen] See "C.I.W.A.," vol. iv. pl. 14; also "Records of the Past," vol.
xi. p. 135.]



COLUMN IV

HEABANI, THE HERMIT SEER


Before a cave within the Gab-ri[1] wild,
A seer is resting on a rock; exiled
By his own will from all the haunts of men,
Beside a pool within a rocky glen
He sits; a turban rests upon his brow,
And meets the lengthened beard of whitest snow.
This morn an omen comes before his eyes,