TCL 06, 17 [Enuma Anu Enlil 08 Commentary]

(o 1) "(If) its right horn is long to the south" (means): Mercury stands to the south in its right horn. If in Tašritu (VI) on the 14th [day] an eclipse has taken place, it began in the south and cleared in the north.

(o 3) "(If) its right horn stands to the east" (means:) on the 1st day it rises to the east : alternatively, a planet approaches it. The goodness or evil that they predict in the eclipse: (If) light begins in the east: goodness. (If) it is affected and begins (in the east): evil. :

(o 5) "(If) the Moon is visible on the 30th day" (means) it appears at the turning of the day.

(o 8) "(If) its right horn is red" (means): Mars approaches it. "Fire will consume a prominent temple" (means): it predicts an eclipse in Orion opposite the Rooster, in the middle of the fire.

(o 10) "(If) its right horn is black" (means): Saturn approaches it. :

(o 12) "(If) the Moon at its appearance in Kislimu on the 1st day - its horns are very pointed and bright" (means): that it appears on the 1st day it is imbued with brilliance (or): on the 14th day it stands in front of the Sun.: Alternatively, on the 1st day Venus has the same longitude as it. :

(o 14) "(If) its horns are dark and the Bull's Jaw stands in front of it" (means:) on the 1st day Mercury is near it (or): on the 14th day the Bull's Jaw stands to the front of it.

(o 16) "(If) its horns are bent up" (means): on the 1st day Jupiter and Venus stand in its right horn and in its left horn. SU (means): step. : SU (means): shining. : inaqqarma (means): it will demolish. : GUL (means): demolishing. GUL (means): destroying. : IR.HU (means): they plotted. : IR.HU (means): plotting. : IR.HU (means:) swelling. : IR.HU (means): hasty : because speeding up (means): hastening.

(o 20) "(If) its horns are touching" (means): Mars and Venus stand in its horns. : "Groups" (means): assembly. "Leader" (means): pre-eminent one. : Ditto (leader) (means): he who goes at the front. :

(o 21) "(If) its horns are bent back (and) are surrounded by 2 cruciform haloe"s (means:) on the 1st day they are imbued with brilliance and are surrounded by 2 cruciform haloes. :

(o 22) "(If) its horns are surrounded by a cruciform halo" (means:) on the 1st day (or) on the 14th day it is surrounded by a cruciform halo. : Alternatively, until there is no eclipse it is surrounded by a cruciform halo. : not created. (If) the planets stand below the Moon: good. (If) a great star stands below the Moon: evil.

(o 25) "(If) its horns are dark (and) Orion stands in front of it" (means): on the 1st day Saturn stands with it in cloud. : Orion rises acronychally opposite it. :

(o 26) "(If) Venus flashes in its right horn and an obverver sees" (means): on the 1st day Venus rises. : "An observer sees", that they say, (means:) because the Moon is visible in the day. : lā hassu (means): unwise. : "He shall dwell in his land of ruination" (means:) he shall dwell in his land that was ruined. :

(o 29) "(If) its light is dim" (means): on the 1st day it is small.

(o 30) "(If) the light of its (first day of the) month keeps shining greatly" (means): Venus appears on the 1st day of the month of the watch. "Alternatively, it rises after a nidītu" (means): Mars and Venus approach it. : LUGAL KUR ŠUB-ta TUŠ-eb (means:) a king will settle an abandoned land. :

(o 32) "(If) it is dark" (means): in winter it appears in cloud. EME BAR-tu (means): foreign language. :

(o 33) "(If) its light is fearsome" (means): on the 1st day Saturn [and] Mercury approach it. "An expeditionary force will conquer a hostile city" (means): Mars will approach it. : "Alternatively, an eclipse will take place in the Lion" (means): the lord La-tarak of the exits.

(o 36) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo" (means): the star of Marduk stands inside it. : The good or evil that it predicts: (if) the star of Marduk becomes abnormally bright (and) stands above the Moon: good. (If) it is faint (and) stands below the Moon: evil. : Alternatively, concerning winter and summer [...].

(r 1) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and the Great One stands inside it (means): a great star [...] in the Great One. Dusk (means): evening. : Sunset (means): dusk. : Sunset (means:) the setting of the sun. "A defeat will be inflicted" (means): there will be a massacre.

(r 3) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and a great star stands inside it" (means): a great star stands in the Hireling in a halo of the Moon.

(r 4) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and the Leopard stands inside it" (means): Mars stands in the Great One in a halo of the Moon. "The rain will be early by 1 double-hour" (means): the rain will be cut off at a distance. Being early (means): cutting. : Being early (means): cutting off. :

(r 7) "(If) the Moon at its appearance in Addaru (XII) on the 1st day is surrounded by a halo and Venus stands inside it" (means): on the 1st day the Moon is surrounded by a halo in the region of the Hireling and Venus stands inside the halo of the Moon. : One says (this) concerning an omen.

(r 9) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and the Scales flash and stand inside it" (means): Saturn becomes abnormally bright (and) stands inside the halo of the Moon. Flashing (means): increasing, of becoming abnormally bright. :

(r 11) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and is thick and spread out" (means:) on the 1st day it is surrounded by a halo and is thick and recumbent. DIRI (means): becoming scattered. : DIRI (means): spreading out.

(r 13) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and the Scorpion stands inside it" (means): on the 1st day it is surrounded by a lunar halo and the Scorpion rises acronychally opposite it. :

(r 14) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and the Yoke and Bristle stand inside it" (means:) on the 1st day the Moon is surrounded by a halo in the Bristle and the Bull of Heaven and Jupiter stands inside the halo. Jupiter in the Bull of Heaven: its name is the Yoke. :

(r 16) "(If) its horns are very pointed and light red" (means:) on the first day (or) the 14th day it appears in a light red cloud. : SU₃ (means): light red.

(r 18) "(If) 1 star rises" (means): on the 1st day it appears inside the planets. : Alernatively, a star enters inside it. : The Hireling (means): the Moon. : One says, inside Ur. :

(r 19) "(If) the Moon at its appearance is surrounded by a lunar halo": either on the 1st day or on the 14th day at the summer acronychal rising it is surrounded by a halo. :

(r 21) "(If) it is surrounded by a halo of stars" (means): either in the Field or in the Tails it is surrounded by ... star(s).

(r 22) "(If) it is surrounded by a Rainbow halo" (means): it is said concerning summer or winter.

(r 23) "(If) it is surrounded by a halo of fog" (means): it is surrounded by a lunar halo in fog. : BI₂.ZA.ZA (means): frog.

(r 24) "(If) it is surrounded by a halo of storm-wind" (means): on the 1st day it is surrounded by a lunar halo and a storm wind is present.

(r 25) "(If) it is surrounded by a halo of the path of a god" (means): on the 1st day it is surrounded by a halo and Adad will raise his voice. : Alternatively, a star whose path the planets do not stand with will be surrounded inside the lunar halo.

(r 27) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and Šulpae stands inside it" (means): Jupiter stands in the Crab or in the Old Man in a halo of the Moon. : "Women will acquire young men" (means): Venus stands in a halo of the Moon, in the Lion or in the Furrow or in the Scorpion. : GURUŠ (young man) (relates to): garāšu (copulating) (which means): having sexual intercourse with. :

(r 30) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and the Field stands inside it" (means): Mars, alternatively Mercury, stands in a halo of the Moon in the Hireling. : ŠU.ZI (means): wild. : Ditto (ŠU.ZI) (means): aggressive. NIM-MEŠ (means): early. : NIM (means): early. : "They will be raped" : because rehû (means) having sexual intercourse. :

(r 33) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and the Arrow stands inside it" (means): Pabilsag's arrow stands in the halo of the Moon. :

(r 34) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and a planet stands inside it" (means): Mars stands in the halo of the Moon, in the Lion or in the Bull of Heaven. : ... reed-bed (is): because ... field (means): cultivated land. :

(r 36) "(If) a planet stands inside it" (means): Mars, alternatively Mercury, stands in the halo of the Moon in the Lion. :

(r 37) "(If) the Kidney, alternatively the Fish, stands inside it" (means): Mars stands in the halo of the Moon in the Great One, alternatively in the Goatfish. : Alternatively, (its) normal (meaning). :

(r 38) "(If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and the ... stars stand at sunset" (means): on the 1st day Jupiter and Mercury stand on top of the knot of the lunar halo at sunrise.

(r 41) Properly executed.

(r 42) "(If) the Moon at its appearance is surrounded by a lunar halo and it is thick and spread out" : on the 1st day it is surrounded by a lunar halo. : ... [...].

(r 43) Commentary and oral tradition. Reading from the Series of "When Anu, Ellil, from within "(If) in Tašritu (VII) the Moon is surrounded by a lunar halo".

(r 44) Tablet of Iqiša, son of Ištar-šum-ereš, descendant of Ekur-zakir.