SAA 03 039. Mystical Miscellanea (KAR 307)

(1) [... is his ...] Tamarisk is his topknot. [......].

(2) [...] is his [...]. The palm frond is [his] whiskers.

(3) [Cedar] is his [kne]es. The apple is his ankle bones. The snake is his penis. The harp is his hand.

(4) [.......] his wings.

(5) [...] is his [...]. The cat is the blood of his heart. The partridge is a drop of his heart's blood.

(6) [...]... [is his ...]. The pig is his innards.

(7) The scorpion is his lip. The whet-stone is his tongue. The leek is the hair of his armpits.

(8) The drum is his lower jaw.

(9) The lion is his larger intestines. The dog is his smaller intestines. The raven is his mole.

(10) The poplar is [his] body.

(11) The kettledrum is his heart. The date-palm is his back-bone. The reeds are his fingers.

(12) Silver is his skull. Gold is his sperm.

(13) The thorn bush is his breast hair. The boxthorn is the hair of his groin.

(14) His ear wax is lead. The fruit tree is his bone.

(15) The fish are his breasts. The figs are his .... Oil is his tears.

(16) The bulrush is his nose mucus.

(17) The dried dates are his flesh. The aromatic ... is [his] li[ps].

(18) [...] is the ... of his blood. The grapes are [his] eyeballs.

(19) Ištar of Durna (= Nineveh) is Tiamat; she is the wet nurse of Bel.

(20) She has [four eyes] and four ears.

(21) Her upper parts are Bel, and her lower parts are Mullissu.

(22) The Lady of Liburna (= Arbela) is the mother of Bel.

(23) He gave her vegetables; alternatively, she is Antu and they make funerary offerings to Anu.

(24) The Elamite chariot, which has no seat, carries inside it the corpse of Enmešarra.

(25) The horses which are harnessed to it are the ghost of Anzû. The king who stands in the chariot is the warrior king, the lord Ninurta.

(27) The ecstatic priest, who stands with him, pulled out the tongues of Anzû and holds them in his hand.

(28) He hung the ladders of the house of Enmešarra on the wall

(29) and woke up the sleeper. Taboo of Enmešarra.

(30) The upper heaven of luludanitu stone is Anu's. He settled the 300 Igigi gods there.

(31) The middle heaven of saggilmud stone is of the Igigi gods. Bel sits there in a high temple on a dais of lapis lazuli and has made a lamp of electrum shine there.

(33) The lower heaven of jasper is of the stars. He drew the constellations of the gods on it.

(34) He made the souls of mankind reside on the terra firma of the upper earth.

(35) In the core of the middle earth he settled Ea, his father.

(36) He did not distinguish [......]... rebellion.

(37) In the core of the lower [earth] he shut up the 600 Anunnaki.

(38) [......]... [......] of jasper.

(r 1) [The ...]... of muṣu stone on the horn is Tiamat. Bel defeated [her]. He [sm]ote her, established her destiny and split her into two parts like the fish of the drying place.

(r 3) The Tigris is her right eye. The Euphrates is her left eye.

(r 4) 40 double hours is the disc of the sun. 60 double hours is the disc of the moon. The inside of the s[un is Ma]rduk. The inside of the moon is Nabû. Inside the sun there is a viper, [his] .... Inside the m[oon] is his [mot]her. The dagger above the lion is of the hand [of ...].

(r 7) Meslamtaea is Marduk, who rises from and goes down to the underworld, because Aššur chased him into a hole and opened its gate.

(r 9) The ... of the lord, the raven is his mole; it is the ghost of Enmešarra, (which) keeps crying: "Burn me, burn me!"

(r 11) The wild ass is the ghost of Illil; the wolf is the ghost of Anu. B[el] made him roam the plain. The gazelles, his daughters, Bel made to roam the plain.

(r 13) The dromedary is the ghost of Tiamat. Bel cut off her horns, clove her [fee]t and docked her tail. Bel vanquished her and displayed her to mankind, lest she be forgotten. Its name is tamriqātu, as it is said among the people: ētamar qātāia ("He learned from my example").

(r 17) The singed ox and sheep, which which they throw alive to the ground, are Qingu and [his] seven sons, when they were smitten.

(r 19) The dove which they throw down, is Tiamat: they cast her down and kill her.

(r 20) The king, who wears on his head a golden tiara from the inside of the temple and sits on a sedan chair, while they carry him and go to the palace, is Ninurta, who avenged his father. The gods, his fathers, decorated him inside the Ekur, gave him the sceptre, throne and the staff, adorned him with the splendour of kingship, and he went out to the mountain.

(r 24) The cedar (resin) which they burn in front of them is the loose flesh of the evil gods; they smelled the scent and went into hiding.

(r 26) Secret lore of the great gods. An initiate may show it to another initiate; the uninitiated may not see it.

(r 27) Taboo of the great gods. Written and checked according to its original. It is a writing board like the original.

(r 29) [Tablet] of Kiṣir-Aššur, exorcist of the temple of Aššur, son of Nabû-bessunu, exorcist of the temple of Aššur, [son] of Baba-šuma-ibni, the zabardabbu official of Ešarra.