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Plain text of Right Ginza, Third Book: The Book of the Living, First Teaching (6)

and he cried over himself: Ah, ah.

He cried over himself: Ah, ah,

and his own fire glowed upon him.

He cried over himself: Woe, woe,

because wrath had come upon him.

Wrath had come upon him,

and sores covered him from head to foot.

Woe, woe cries the wicked one,

and all the waters became turbid.

The waters became turbid.

His eyes grew dark and gave no light.

His arms (wings) he beat against the earth,

a trembling arose in his heart.

With his heel he stamped on the earth,

cramps fell upon his side.

The king of darkness shut himself up in his own vessel,

and nothing of my word reached him.

He consumed himself in sighing and cried:

"Merciful One, have mercy on me."

When he cried "Merciful One, have mercy on me",

he cast out of his mouth all that he had eaten.

All that he had eaten he cast out of his mouth,

and his stench was loathsome.

When he cried "Compassionate One, have compassion on me",

all his followers left him.

His followers left him,

and his own burden pressed upon him.

His own burden pressed upon him,

which was great and endless.

As he thrashed about,

he made his dwelling shake.

When he made his dwelling shake,

guards were set over him.

The guards that were set over him

were coarse giants of the world.

Through the coarse ones and giants

a trembling arose in the heart of Ruha.

A trembling arose in the heart of Ruha,

she weeps, groans and screams.

She speaks to the lowly brute,

the ugly, filthy serpent,

whose stench rises:

"Who has done this to you,

who has done this ......?"

Then he spoke to Namrus,

the treasure ......, from which he had come forth.

When he wanted to speak to her,

the bridle moved in his mouth.

The bridle moved in his mouth,

and the man howled and screamed.

Woe he howled, Woe he screamed,

the man, the lord of the whole world.

He spoke to Namrus,

the mother of this world:

"The man who has done this to me

is greater than all the world.

I beheld the image of his face

and was not equal to his whole greatness.

I was not equal to his whole greatness,

because he is greater than all the world."

When he spoke so to his mother,

he wanted to draw her to himself.

The angels who watched over him

called out his vain name.

One says to another:

"Ur is moving away from his place."

When Ruha heard this,

she strikes her head with her hands.

She strikes her hands upon her head

and tears out the locks on her head

and cries Woe, woe.

Ruha and the Astartes stand there

and forge secret plans.

They stand there and forge secret plans

against the giants, the guards of Ur.

When I saw it,

I surrounded him with a ring,

a ring I surrounded him with,

which is fastened at the heart of heaven ......

I made and fashioned a wall for him, an iron wall,

and surrounded his whole dwelling with it.

Over the wall with which I surrounded him

I set guardians,

guardians who were to watch over his resting place.

Twenty-four gates I made in it,

through which his world is guarded.

Through them his world is guarded

and dust rises upon him.

When I had made twenty-four gates in it,

he cried: Ah, ah, woe.

"When I hunger, what shall I eat;

when I thirst, what shall I drink?

On what shall I lie down,

and who will keep me company?"

I answered then and said

to Ur, the vain king of darkness:

"The good ascends by his virtue

and beholds the place of light.

The wicked, because of his wickedness,

will be cut off in the place of darkness.

At the gates of darkness you shall lie,

the vessel from which you came forth.

It shall keep you company,

the vessel in which you have shut yourself.

When you hunger, eat of your hosts,

of all that has joined itself to you.

Let your drink be from that black water

in which you have taken up dwelling."

"If I eat and am not satisfied,

who will support my inner being in its place?

If I drink and am not sated,

who will quench my thirst?"

When the wicked one spoke so,

I laughed, shining in my garment,

I mocked and laughed at him,

the serpent without hands and feet:

"You wanted to swallow the whole world,

but then the word of God came,

which has the power to rule and command."

When I spoke so to him,