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Prayers and Incantations
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Texts
A Bilingual Litany for EnkiA nearly complete bilingual litany — Sumerian with Akkadian interlinear — in which the gods assemble before Enki and plead with him to return to Eridu. Without you, who makes a decision? Without you, who speaks a word? Now speak, and let your city be built! From a Late Babylonian tablet from Sippar. Translated from Akkadian and Sumerian by the Good Works Library.Without YouA Sumerian penitential prayer from Sippar cataloguing everything in the cosmos — kingship, justice, nature — that cannot function without the sun-god Utu.