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Chapter 7  
     
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 A man...  
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 A man...  
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 The son to his father...  
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 They sat and...  
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 He was carrying...  
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 He saw...  
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 Ellil...
  
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 They took hold of...  
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 Made new picks and spades,  
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 Made big canals,  
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 To feed people and sustain the gods.  
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 600 years, less than 600, passed,  
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 And the country was as noisy as a bellowing bull.
  
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 The god grew restless at their racket,
  
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 Ellil had to listen to their noise.
  
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 He addressed the great gods,
  
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 The noise of mankind has become too much,
  
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 I am losing sleep over their racket.
  
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 Give the order that suruppu-disease shall break out,
  
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 Now there was one Atrahasis  
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 Whose ear was open to his god Enki.
  
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 He would speak with his god
  
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 And his god would speak with him.
  
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 Atrahasis made his voice heard
  
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 And spoke to his lord,
  
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 How long will the gods make us suffer?
  
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 Will they make us suffer illness forever?
  
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 Enki made his voice heard
  
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 And spoke to his servant:
  
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 Call the elders, the senior men!
  
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 Start an uprising in your own house,
  
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 Let the heralds proclaim...
  
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 Let them make a loud noise in the land:
  
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 Do not revere your gods,
  
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 Do not pray to your goddesses,
  
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 But search out the door of Namtara.
  
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 Bring as baked loaf into his presence.
  
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 May the flour offerings reach him.
  
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 May he be shamed by the presents
  
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 And wipe away his hand.
  
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 Atrahasis took the order,
  
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 Gathered the elders to his door.
  
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 Atrahasis made his voice heard
  
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 And spoke to the elders:
  
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 I have called the elders, the senior men!
  
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 Start an uprising in your own house,
  
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 Let the heralds proclaim...
  
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 Let them make a loud noise in the land:
  
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 Do not revere your gods,
  
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 Do not pray to your goddesses,
  
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 But search out the door of Namtara.
  
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 Bring as baked loaf into his presence.
  
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 May the flour offerings reach him.
  
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 May he be shamed by the presents
  
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 And wipe away his hand.
  
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 The elders listened to his speech;
  
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 They built a temple for Namtara in the city.
  
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 Heralds proclaimed...
  
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 They made a loud noise in the land.
  
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 They did not revere their god,
  
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 they did not pray to their goddess,
  
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 But searched out the door of Namtara,
  
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 Brought a baked loaf into his presence
  
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 The flour offerings reached him.
  
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 And he was shamed by the presents.
  
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 And wiped away his hand.
  
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 The suruppu-disease left them.
  
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 The gods went back to their regular offerings.
  

 
 
 

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