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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet XI (4)
I provided it with six decks, thus dividing it into seven (levels). The inside of it I divided into nine (compartments). I drove plugs (to keep out) water in its middle part. I saw to the punting poles and laid in what was necessary. Three times 3,600 (units) of raw bitumen I poured into the bitumen kiln, three times 3,600 (units of) pitch...into it, there were three times 3,600 porters of casks who carried (vege- table) oil, apart from the 3,600 (units of) oil which they consumed (!) and two times 3,600 (units of) oil which the boatman stored away. I butchered oxen for the meat(!), and day upon day I slaughtered sheep. I gave the workmen(?) ale, beer, oil, and wine, as if it were river water, so they could make a party like the New Year's Festival.... and I set my hand to the oiling(!).
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Hiramic Legend (6)
"But Dagon's Temple, and the finest structures of Tyre and Sidon, could not be compared with the Eternal God's Temple at Jerusalem, * * * there were...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (6)
But that vessel floated on the water, while all the oxen and elephants and camels and asses sank to the bottom with all the animals, so that I could n...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter X (21)
And they built it : forty and three years were they building it ;. its i F breadth was 203 bricks, and the height (of a brick) was the third of one; i...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter X (20)
And they began to build, and in the fourth week they made brick with fire, and the bricks served them for stone, and the clay with which they cemented...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CXLIV (10)
This is said at the entrance of every gate, of those which are in the books, and to each of them an offering is made of the haunch, the head, the...
Pyramid Texts
A Group Of Prayers And Charms, Utterances 204-212 (207-208)
124 To say: An offering of the butcher; an offering of the butcher; an offering of that which is in the eye of R`; 124 an offering of the...
Pyramid Texts
Ritual Of Bodily Restoration Of The Deceased, And Offerings, Utterances 12-203 (72)
78. 50 Pouring a libation of oil. Utterances 72-76. 72. 50 Osiris N., I fill thine eye for thee with ointment. To say four times. t-b-oil.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXXII (4)
And on the fifteenth of this month, he brought to the altar fourteen oxen from amongst the cattle, and twenty-eight rams, and forty-nine sheep, and se...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (76)
In this manner God joined the seven double letters together. Two stones build two houses, three stones build six houses, four stones build twenty-four...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter VI (3)
And he placed the fat thereof on the aitar, and he took an ox, and a goat, and a sheep and kids, and salt, and a turtle-dove, and the young of a dove,...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CXL (5)
When this chapter has been read to its end, this is the copy of the order of offerings made when the Eye is full: four burning altars for Rā, four...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXXVIII (7)
Thou takest possession of water, and thou marchest towards the altar of Sashert: four measures of water, as was commanded by Osiris to N. Shu has...