CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
LOWHA SHIL ETANA TABLET OF
Tablet 2:77 Tablet 2:114
77 “The Aluhum showed me a dream.
78 Liked Etana my husband I have had a dream of distress.
79 Like you the Aluhum have shown me a dream of distress.
80 And his ghost is most holy.
81 Etana opened his mouth and spoke to the eagle-man.
82 ‘My friend, that Aluhum showed me another dream of delight.
83 We were going through the entrance of the gate of ANU, father of Enlil and Enqi.
84 We bowed down together, you and I.
85 We were going through the entrance of the gate of Sin, Shamash, Baal-Adad and Ishtar.
86 We bowed down together, you and I.
87 I saw a house with a window that was not sealed.
88 I pushed it open and went inside.
89 Sitting in there was a girl.
90 Adorned with a crown, beautiful was her face.
91 A throne was set in place, and within this great house she sat.
92 Beneath the throne crouched snarling lions. I came up and the lions sprang at me.
93 I woke up terrified.’ The eagle-man said to Etana,
94 ‘My friend, the significance of the dream is quite clear! Come, let me carry you up to the heaven of ANU, the great ‘AL.’
95 Put your chest over its breast, put his hands over its sides.
96 Put your arms over my sides.’
97 He put his chest over its breast, put his hands over its feathers,
98 Put his arms over its sides.
99 The eagle-man tied its load on securely,
100 Took him up a mile.
101 And spoke to him, to Etana,
102 ‘See, my friend, how the country seems!
103 Inspect the sea, look carefully for its features!
104 The country is only the edge of a point seen of a mountain!
105 And whatever has become of the sea.’
106 The eagle-man took him up a second mile and spoke to Etana,
107 ‘See, my friend, how the country seems!
108 The sea has turned into a gardener’s ditch!’
109 When they came up to the heaven of ANU,
110 They went through the gate of ANU, father of Enlil and Enqi.
111 The eagle-man and Etana bowed down together.
112 They went through the gate of Sin, Shamash, Baal-Adad, also called Elyon, the foul, and Ishtar.
113 The eagle-man and Etana bowed down together.
114 He pushed it open and went inside.
This Is How It Was Recorded And This How It Will Be
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