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Ur-Bau expressly calls the god the 'king of Eridu. The sacredness of the place is attested by Gudea, who boasts of having made the temple of Nin-girsu as sacred as Eridu. It is over this city that Ea watches. The importance of the Persian Gulf to the growth of the city, would make it natural to place the seat of the god in the waters themselves.
Enlil and Ea are both represented as bestowing their own names upon Marduk, and we may assume that many of the fifty titles were originally borne by Enlil as a Sumerian Creator. Thus some portions of the actual account of Creation were probably derived from a Sumerian original in which "Father Enlil" figured as the hero. Cf., e.g., Jastrow, Journ. of the Amer. Or. Soc., Vol. XXXVI , p. 279.
"Is ea id, ejus, ejus, ejus!" shouted Grisha, skipping along the avenue. "And some one else too! Papa, of course!" cried Levin, stopping at the entrance of the avenue. "Kitty, don't come down the steep staircase, go round." But Levin had been mistaken in taking the person sitting in the carriage for the old prince.
In a hymn where a description occurs of the boat containing Ea, Damkina his wife, and Marduk their son, together with the ferryman and some other personages sailing across the ocean, we may see traces of the process of symbolization to which the old figures of mythology were subjected. Shamash.
Often, however, the narrative is interrupted for the purpose of making acknowledgment to a larger or smaller series of gods for victory, granted or hoped for. In these combined references a separate place belongs to the triad, Anu, Bel, and Ea.
In another place we have among the saint's suitors "plebeius pauperrimus, qui in ea habitabat regione quæ Stagni litoribus Aporici est contermina." The "Stagnum Aporicum" is Lochaber; so here we have a pauper from the neighbourhood of Lochaber a designation which I take to be familiarly known at "the Board of Supervision for the Relief of the Poor in Scotland."
Whilst in the Sacristy Monseigneur took the sacred oils from the hands of the Abbe Cornille. He accompanied them, almost staggering; he did not dare to enter into the chamber, but fell upon his knees at the threshold of the door, which was open wide. The voice of the Bishop was firm, as he said: "Pax huic domui." "Et omnibus habitantibus in ea," the priest replied.
"'Obsecro Deum omnipotentem, ut, qua cruce jam pendent isti quindecim latrones fures et homicidae, in ea homicida fur et latro tu pependeris quam citissime, pro publica salute, in honorem justi Dei cui sit gloria, in aeternum, Amen." "And so good day." The greedy outlaw was satisfied last. "That is Latin," he muttered, "and more than I bargained for." So indeed it was.
May it be removed like a husk. O power of the spirit of heaven, be thou invoked! O spirit of earth, be thou invoked!" The purification by water, which is here only incidentally referred to, is more fully touched upon in other incantations, where Ea tells Marduk that the victim must take
The word that I speak to thee take to heart. The messenger of Anu approached. 'Adapa has broken the wings of the south wind. Deliver him into my hands.... Ea obeys the order, delivers up Adapa, and everything happens as was foretold. Upon mounting to heaven and on his approach to the gate of Anu, Tammuz and Gishzida were stationed at the gate of Anu. They saw Adapa and cried 'Help, Lord!
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