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Enuma Elish

Other Accounts: Cattle & Beasts
Mesopotamian trans. Leonard William King • c. 12th-7th century BCE
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When the gods in their assembly had made [the world
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And had created the heavens, and had formed [the earth], 2
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And had brought living creatures into being
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And [had fashioned] the cattle of the field, and the beasts of the field, and the creatures [of the city],—
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After [they had ...] unto the living creatures
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And between the beasts] of the field and the creatures of the city had divided
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And had ...] all creatures, the whole of creation
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And had ...], which in the whole of my family
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Then did] Nin-igi-azag [fashion] two small creatures
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Among] all the beasts he made [their form] glorious
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the goddess Gula
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one white [and one black
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one white and one black
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The rest of the text is wanting