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In Babylonian, Kallat Eshara, with another play upon her name. See above, p. 173. Servant of Gula. See V.R. pl. 60. To this day in the Orient, fine productions of man's skill are attributed to the influence of hidden spirits, good or bad, as the case may be.
She is not mentioned in any of the inscriptions of this period till we come to the days of Nebuchadnezzar I., who invokes her as the bride of Eshara, i.e., of the earth. We also meet with her name in that of several individuals, Balatsu-Gula and Arad-Gula, and we have seen that she is also known as Damu and Mamu, or Meme.
The bright house, the house of the gods not yet constructed as a dwelling. The world was all a sea. Again it will be observed that neither popular nor scholastic speculation can picture the beginning of things in any other way than as an absence of things characteristic of the order of the universe. The bright house of the gods corresponds to Eshara and the canopy of heaven in the first version.
The god Ninib, in his capacity as a god of agriculture, is called the 'product of Eshara. Pap-u, therefore, must be a god somewhat of the same character a conclusion which is borne out by the description given of him as the protector of the boundary. He is probably one of the numerous forms of boundary gods that are met with among all nations.
Ekur and Eshara being employed as synonyms, Shamshi-Ramman replaces Ekur by Eshara, and since Bel is the lord of Ekur-Eshara, Nin-ib also becomes the first-born son of Bel.
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