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That the fragment under consideration belongs to the beginning of the epic is tolerably certain, though not absolutely so. Sixth tablet, l. 192. He brings offerings to Lugal-Marada, i.e., the king of Marada a solar deity. See p. 486. See above, p. 448. Anu here used in the generic sense of 'lofty, 'divine. The phrase is equivalent to the Biblical 'image of God.
But with this proposition that the prostitutes were priestesses attached to the Ishtar cult and who look part in ceremonies intended to symbolize fertility, we must for the present rest content. Gilgamesh, secure in his victory, proceeds to offer the horns of the divine bull to his patron Lugal-Marada, the 'king' of Marad, and who appears to be identical with Shamash himself.
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