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Shamash and Gilgamesh promise Eabani royal honors if he will join friendship with them. Come, and on a great couch, On a fine couch he will place thee. He will give thee a seat to the left. The rulers of the earth will kiss thy feet. All the people of Uruk will crouch before thee. Eabani consents, and in company with Gilgamesh proceeds to the fortress of Khumbaba.
Their temples, too, at Babylon appear to have suffered damage during the invasion of the city, and accordingly the statues are placed in the temple of Shamash pending the restoration of E-Sagila. Agum dwells at length upon the handsome garments and head-dress, studded with precious stones, that he prepared for the god and his consort.
By Shamash the mighty, be ye foresworn. By Ea, the lord of everything, be ye foresworn. By Marduk, the chief magician of the gods, be ye foresworn. By the fire-god, be ye foresworn. From my body be ye restrained! Repetition and variation in the use of certain phrases make up, as will be seen from the specimens given, a large part of the incantation.
Evidently, then, such addresses to Shamash are to be viewed in no other light than the exaltation of Nusku in the 'Maklu' series, and which we have found were in many cases elaborate, beautiful in diction, and elevated in thought.
In the great temple to Shamash at Sippar, there appear to have been several days that were marked by religious observances. These garments are given to Shamash, to his consort Malkatu, and to Bunene.
A certain measure of independence was reserved for the great mother goddess Ishtar, who, worshipped under various names as the symbol of fertility, plenty, and strength, is not so decidedly affected by the change as deities like En-lil, Shamash, Sin, and Ea, who could at any time become rivals of Marduk.
But the same conception would hold good of Shamash, of Ninib, and of some other solar deities, though not of all. That Du-azagga came to be especially associated with Marduk is due simply to the preëminent rank that he came to occupy. Whether there was also a popular basis for the conception of an Ubshu-kenna, an 'assembly room' of the gods, is a question more difficult to answer.
'Consecration wine, eh? he said grimly. 'What else, Excellency? stoutly replied the Shamash, who had followed him. A savage laugh broke from the officer's lips. 'Drink me a mouthful! As the Shamash took the bottle, with a fearless shrug of the shoulders, every eye strained painfully towards him, save in the women's gallery, where many covered their faces with their hands. Every breath was held.
The time when the catastrophe is to take place is vaguely indicated. When Shamash will bring on the time, then the lord of the whirlstorm Will cause destruction to rain upon you in the evening. The 'lord of the whirlstorm' is Ramman, and the reference to this deity specifies the manner in which the catastrophe will be brought about.
It is hardly possible that the illustration on seal cylinders mentioned by Ward, ib. pp. 13, 14, represents the Zu bird brought before a deity for punishment; and certainly not before Shamash, who only enters into the story in so far as Marduk is a solar deity. Published by Winckler and Abel, Der Thontafelfund von El-Amarna, iii. 166a, b; translated also by Harper, ib. pp. 420, 421.
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