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and the various classes of demons, utukku, alu, etc., are introduced. Compare this now with some passages in a prayer addressed to Marduk: A resting-place for the lord of E-makh-tila is thy house. E-sagila, the house of thy sovereignty, is thy house. May the city speak 'rest' to thee thy house. May Babylon speak peace to thee thy house.
O merciful one among the gods! O merciful one who loveth to give life to the dead! Marduk, king of heaven and earth, King of Babylon, lord of E-sagila, King of E-zida, lord of E-makh-tila, Heaven and earth are thine. Thou art the shedu, thou art the lamassu. O merciful one among the gods! One scarcely detects any difference between such a hymn and those to Sin and Nebo.
In the first place, the close relationship between Marduk and Nabu was emphasized by placing a papakhu to Nabu in the precinct of E-Sagila, which built in imitation of E-Zida at Borsippa was called by the same name. This papakhu, it would seem, was independent of a special temple to Nabu known as E-Makh-tila, and which lay in Borsippa.
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