. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . n, Die Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 91,93) identifiesZu with the constellation of Pegasus, and the bull, his son, with our constellation of the Bull. * The legend of Adapa has been partly preserved for us on one of the Tel-el-Amarna tablets(Winckler, Thontafelfutid von El-Amarna, vol. iii., pi. clsvi. a, b). It was successively pointed outby Lehniann (Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie, vol. iii. p. 380), Sayce (Address to the Assyrian Sction of theNinth International Congress of Orientalists, pp. 24-29, and Patriarchal Palestine, pp. 205, 266), and
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . n, Die Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 91,93) identifiesZu with the constellation of Pegasus, and the bull, his son, with our constellation of the Bull. * The legend of Adapa has been partly preserved for us on one of the Tel-el-Amarna tablets(Winckler, Thontafelfutid von El-Amarna, vol. iii., pi. clsvi. a, b). It was successively pointed outby Lehniann (Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie, vol. iii. p. 380), Sayce (Address to the Assyrian Sction of theNinth International Congress of Orientalists, pp. 24-29, and Patriarchal Palestine, pp. 205, 266), andScheil (Légende chaldéenne trouvée à Tell-el-Amarna, in the Revue des Religions, vol. i. pp. 162-165).A translation and commentary has been published by Zmmern, An Old Babylonian Ltgion from Egypt,in the Sunday School Times (June 18, 1892), p. 386, et seq., cf. A. Gunkel, Schopfung und Chaos,pp. 420-422; afterwards by Harper, Die Babylonischen Legenden von Etana, Zu, Adapa und Dibbara,in the Beitriige zur Assyriologie, vol. ii. pp. 000 THE TEMPLES AND THE GODS OF CHALDJEA. of Aim in heaven. He enjoyed, nevertheless, certaiu privileges, thanksto his familiar intercourse with his father Ea, and owing to his birth hewas strong enough to repel the assaults of more than one deity. When,therefore, Shutu, falling upon him unexpectedly, had overthrown him,his anger knew no bounds : Shutu, thou hast overwhelmed me with thyLatred, great as it is,—I will break thy wings! Having thus spoken withhis mouth unto Shutu, Adapa broke his wings. For seven days,—Shutubreathed no longer upon the earth. Anu, being disturbed at this quiet,which seemed to him not very consonant with the meddling temperamentof the wind, made inquiries as to its cause through his messenger Habiât. His messenger Ilabrât answered him : My master,—Adapa, the son of Ea,has broken Shutus wings.—Anu, when he heard these words, cried out : * Help ! and he sent to Ea Barku, the genius of the lightning, w
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