Plain text of Other Accounts of Creation
Another Version of the Dragon-Myth
Obverse
1 The cities sighed, men ...
2 Men uttered lamentation, ...
3 For their lamentation there was none to help,
4 For their grief there was none to take them by the hand.
5 Who was the dragon ...?
6 Tiamat was the dragon ...!
7 God in heaven hath formed ...
8 Fifty ... in his ... one kaspu his height,
9 Six cubits is his mouth, twelve cubits his ...,
10 Twelve cubits is the circuit of his ears ...;
11 For the space of sixty cubits he ... a bird;
12 In water nine cubits deep he draggeth ...
13 He raiseth his tail on high ...
14 All the angels of heaven ...
15 In heaven the angels bowed themselves in entreaty before the mighty one ...;
16 The border of his robe they hastily grasped:
17 "Who will go and slay the dragon,
18 "And deliver the broad land from ...
19 "And become ruler over ...?"
20 "Go, Tishu, slay the dragon,
21 "And deliver the broad land from ...
22 "And become ruler over ...!"
23 "Thou hast sent me, O lord, to ... the raging creatures of the river,
24 "But I know not the ... of the Dragon!"
Reverse
1 ... opened his mouth and spake unto ...:
2 "Stir up cloud, and storm and tempest!
3 "The seal of thy life shalt thou set before thy face,
4 "Thou shalt grasp it, and thou shalt slay the dragon."
5 He stirred up cloud, and storm and tempest,
6 He set the seal of his life before his face,
7 He grasped it, and he slew the dragon.
8 For three years and three months, one day and one night,
9 The blood of the dragon flowed ...