The Chaldean account of Genesis : containing the description of the creation, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom, the times of the Patriarchs, and Nimrod, Babylonian fables, and legends of the gods : from the cuneiform inscriptions (1876)
Smith, George, 1840-1876 · New York : Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 177
ident that Ishtar was a very celebrated god-dess, and her adventures formed the subject of manynarratives. Some of the words and forms in thesefables are exactly the same as those used in the Izdu-bar and Creation legends, and in all these stories the 152 BABYLONIAN FABLES. deity Shamas figures… … Chapter X. FRAGMENTS OF MISCELLANEOUS TEXTS. Atarpi.—Sin of the -world.—Mother and daughter quarrel.—Zamu.—Punishment of world.—Hea.—Calls his sons.—Ordersdrought.—Famine.—Building.— Nusku. — Riddle of wise man.—Nature and universal presence of air.—Gods.—Sinuri.—Divining by fracture of…
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