. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . V., 11. 31-52 : cf. Sayce, The Assyrian Story of the Creation, in the Records of the Past,2nd series, vol. i. pp. 137, 138 ; Jensen, Die Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 280-283 ; and Delitzsch,Das Babylonische Weltschopfungsepos, pp 104-105. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from tue bas-relief from Nimrûd preserved in the British Museum(cf. Layard, The Monuments of Nineveh, 2ud series, pi. 5). 542 ANCIENT CHALDJEA. filled her paunch, her breast swelled, her maw was split. Marduk gave astraight thrust with his lance, burst open the paunch, pierced the in
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . V., 11. 31-52 : cf. Sayce, The Assyrian Story of the Creation, in the Records of the Past,2nd series, vol. i. pp. 137, 138 ; Jensen, Die Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 280-283 ; and Delitzsch,Das Babylonische Weltschopfungsepos, pp 104-105. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from tue bas-relief from Nimrûd preserved in the British Museum(cf. Layard, The Monuments of Nineveh, 2ud series, pi. 5). 542 ANCIENT CHALDJEA. filled her paunch, her breast swelled, her maw was split. Marduk gave astraight thrust with his lance, burst open the paunch, pierced the interior, torethe breast, then bound the monster and deprived her of life. When he hadvanquished Tiâmat, who had been their leader, her army was disbanded, herhost was scattered, and the gods, her allies, who had marched beside her,trembled, were scared, and fled. 1 He seized hold of them, and of Kingutheir chief, and brought them bound in chains before the throne of his had saved the gods from ruin, but this was the least part of his. A KUFA WITH STONES AND MANNED BY A CHEW OF FOUK task ; he had still to sweep out of space the huge carcase which encumbered it,and to separate its ill-assorted elements, and arrange them afresh for the benefitof the conquerors. He returned to Tiâmat whom he had bound in placed his foot upon her, with his unerring knife he cut into the upper partof her ; then he cut the blood-vessels, and caused the blood to be carried by thenorth wind to the hidden places. And the gods saw his face, they rejoiced, theygave themselves up to gladness, and sent him a present, a tribute of peace ;then he recovered his calm, he contemplated the corpse, raised it and wroughtmarvels. He split it in two as one does a fish for drying ; 3 then he hung upone of the halves on high, which became the heavens ; the other half he spreadout under his feet to form the earth, and made the universe such as men havesince known it. As in Egypt, the wo
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