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Its early disappearance from Babylonian history perhaps in part accounts for our own unfamiliarity with Pabilkharsag, its city-god, unless we may regard the name as a variant from of Pabilsag; but it is hardly likely that the two should be identified. In Sibbar, the fourth of the Antediluvian cities in our series, we again have a parallel to Berossus.
The text then relates the founding by the god of five cities, probably "in clean places", that is to say on hallowed ground. The . . . of these cities, Eridu, he gave to the leader, Nu- dimmud, Thirdly, Larak he gave to Pabilkharsag, Fourthly, Sippar he gave to the hero, the Sun-god, Fifthly, Shuruppak he gave to "the God of Shuruppak",
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