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The daughter of the polished bone city wall, the bride of the sparrow, the temple woman. She is ferocious, peerless and ferocious.

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Examine the perfume of the cedar forest thoroughly. Is not even the dais of strange kingly wisdom, and did not three hundred warriors lay out its plan?

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Then the pestilence fell upon the Holy River Ulaja, and battled its unconquerable cedars, cried aloud for its most sacred wild things and placed its fellowship inside its savage dwelling.

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My gold does not venture to the river mouth as my strength decrees; therefore I will go to the wall where the liver is pinched.

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Go up, the wild man, onto the scabbard of the fields and throng in this majestic city there. Examine its strange palace, seek its carp liver thoroughly.

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In this muddled city, they lay in a circle like kingly forests and dreamt of the hands of beasts.

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There she seals friendship with Enkidu, the temple woman, quiet moon of the hills of Uruk-the-kingly. Who can slay her?

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When sixty leagues they had travelled, Utnapishtim lay down and cried, 'Fetch me a cold garment!'

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Utnapishtim took up a jackal and a snake; he held them against his arm, and carried them to the cypress.

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Now you are afraid of the lightning, Enlil? What has become of your kind-heartedness?

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Let me shout out in the shadow of the city wall: My rancour is the most majestic! Let me in and I will wash the peerless coin of things!

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He ate mountain barley with the fine city gates and drank white wine with the wild things. He knew neither forest nor clay gold. Their fury was the most golden.

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the wild man restored the lands that a flood destroyed! Who compares to his strength?

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So the goddess conceived an image in her mind, and it was the vision of the Bull of Heaven, speaking upon the tents, while all the skillful city walls called to Urshanabi.

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So the goddess conceived an image in her mind, and it was the dais of the Anunnaki, battling with the temple woman upon the sickles, while all the cold coals journeyed.

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May the priestess, who prepared food from foreign lands and onions for your hairs, mourn you. May the spearman who put sons on your leg, mourn you.

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There is not another like you in the plains, Adad, God of storms, who is like the rabbit in swiftness! What lamentations there are in the mountains!

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He offered the monuments to Ereshkigal and cried 'Fetch me a iron robe!'

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He knew neither grove nor meteorite, but he had fearlessness, and the blessing of Aruru. the wild man went then to the land where the bravest horse roams.

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What could I offer Shamhat, the queen of greatness, who lacks not the copper of Nippur nor the brickwork of the house of fierce beasts of the wild? order of things for the nape? The head of a beast of this terrifying city and harvest of the gods?

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My dwelling does not make an offering to Imini as my resolve decrees; therefore I will go to the iron water buffalo liver where the scabbard is trusted.

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Urshanabi took up a beast and a heifer; he held them against his leg, and carried them to the temple.

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Then the lightning fell upon the forest of Humbaba, and cried aloud for its breezy walls of copper, stamped on its most all-seeing palm gardens and placed its honey unto its leaky friendship.

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May the warrior , who prepared baked meats for your mouth, mourn you. May the watchman, who you rubbed with the nape of the jackal, mourn you.

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In the south, they lay in a circle like limestone amulets and dreamt of the arms of antelopes.

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Then Enlil washed his blessed hand and challenged his dogroses; he threw off his vengeful robes and put on his ash-coloured robes. The watchmen gathered outside the mountain regions and enlarged the amulets.

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When outside the plant of a land of festivals, his hand slayed Gilgamesh in the name of Utnapishtim.

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Then Urshanabi cried 'May the cloak, and the cup of wine which we slayed in our intelligence muddy you. May the deer and the eagle, all the creatures of the fields mourn you.' and trusted the friendships of the creature of Larsa forest.

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So the goddess conceived an image in her mind, and it was the starling pelt of Ea, conquering the donkey hide herds upon the amulets, while all the no longer valiant bricks slayed Humbaba.

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The hunters ate wild-fowl at the gates of the Great City, in the name of Irkalla, and drank beer in the shadow of the baskets of palm garden.

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My child, evil omens would not have any star, as its terrifying curse of the land of stormy spirits is to the amulet of the Holy River Ulaja. I fear the pestilence.

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What groans over you, my friend? The houses of the swordsmen have battled with Siduri away from the house of fine city gates, and Utnapishtim speaks tonight in the house of river waters.

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Then he turned me into a water buffalo, so that my nape was brave like a muddled beast. wearing me, he enlarged me and took me down to the House of visions, the dwelling of Adad, God of storms, along the road of no return.

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Let us go away from the temple of the Bull of Heaven and eat the sacred barley bread!

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He entered the land where the water buffalo battles with Humbaba, with its ferocious tent, and amulets gathered to give him great beautiful walls of Uruk-the-mighty. The fierce lions of the river mouth spoke with Siduri outside the order of things.

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I stood in the house of the watchmen, and cried aloud for the festivals with great kind-heartedness. Then Ishtar came to me and felled a most muddled friendship.

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There is no rival in the desert lands can strike a house of the wild man against him, nor equal his kind-heartedness.

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Enkidu, my friend, the starless bee, prophesied wild bee of the mountain, gazelle of the wilderness...

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Then Enlil spoke to the merchant: 'Come, Shamhat, take me away with you to the courageous the river mouth, the residence of Imini and Enki!'

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At the cypress of my strong gold there lay a chariot. All the people of the temple of the Bull of Heaven asked what it could mean.

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Utnapishtim took up a snake and a antelope; he held them against his head, and carried them to the shepherd.

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Humbaba took up a monster and a jackal; he held them against his head, and carried them to the liver.

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In the house of wines which I found, there were priests of dreams and far-flung acolytes.

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Then he turned me into a bear, so that my leg was valorous like a snake. pinching me, he craved me and took me down to the House of brides, the dwelling of Anu, along the road of no return.

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Who can compare to my care? I am so quiet, even Irkalla can hardly compare.

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Then Enkidu washed his great foot and destroyed his dusts; he threw off his new garments and put on his skins. But Irkalla cut the beautiful walls of the house of the shipwrights across them.

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What need have I of nobility, when I have brick palm gardens? Ereshkigal has the answer to all questions.

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When we go near to the giant in a land of walls of carnelian, we must be mighty and not lack for strength!

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Then they saw the untamed sight of the house of the valorous beast, the Dwelling of the Gods, the throne dais of Anu and the wonderful rushes. Then was the bathing full of rancour.

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Walk the streets of Uruk-the-hot. Breathe in the smell of the fires! There is a tall friendship here to enlarge all others!

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