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Plain text of Hero, who shines forth (Culpaed hymn)

1-9 Hero, who shines forth like moonlight over the upper city! Hero Culpaed, who shines forth like moonlight over the upper city! Eminent and famous Culpaed, who shines forth like moonlight over the upper city! Lord of great powers, who appears in glory, Culpaed, of great powers, who appears in glory, lordly in battle, who makes vegetation grow tall in the Land! Lord who raises his great arms, battle-club that smashes all enemies! Pre-eminent and close to the Sovereign, good youth! God has named your august name.

10-18 Lordly with weapons in the thick of battle! Owner of the rebel lands, lordly in the rebel lands, my king, you are an august servant! You are beloved by the Mother of the mountains. You are a hero before whom the wicked are very fearful. Hero Culpaed, lordly in heaven and on earth, my ......, may your name be truly called upon in all the foreign lands! My king, may your greatness be truly called upon in all the foreign lands!

19-30 August ......, rising flood, storm which approaches mankind! People bring their prayers to you like anxious birds. Rising ......, imbued with awesomeness, no one ...... you. Of terrifying appearance, endowed with fearsome splendour, you are imbued with great awesomeness. You are a hurricane that approaches mankind, a great ...... that sweeps men down, ...... that ...... mankind! In the mountains you measure the fields like a ....... ...... emitted from heaven, without compare, ......, who brings daylight to the mountains, ......, battering ......, ......, who flashes like lightning.

31-40 Falling upon mankind like a ...... bird of grief, a demon of fate with no hands or feet, suited (?) to the night, prowling at night, ......, shaped like a ...... -- you, hero Culpaed, are the lord of orchards and gardens, plantations and green reed-beds, of the quadrupeds of the wide high desert, of the animals, the living creatures of the plains. The Most High, King over all, has put them in your hands; he has put them in your hands, and you are their lord. Hero Culpaed, they cannot escape your clutches.

41-48 It is His food that anyone who has food eats; it is His water that anyone who has water drinks. And so people no longer call upon the name of their personal gods, but ...... in every mouth the name of Him who is their only God. The hand ...... of his God ....... He does not ...... the hand, he does not ...... the mouth. He takes away ....... ......, He gives you your .......

49-61 You are a bearer of the throne of the Most High and the Sovereign, the fierce constable of the angels, and the steward of the table of the Sovereign. You do not ...... these people what you have placed. He brings (?) to you ....... ...... that He has handed you. ......, after you have ...... from above; the heavy ...... cover ...... like a garment. ......, after ...... has said ......, ......, he addresses a prayer to God. After he has declared his ...... of lament, he calls (?) like a ...... of a boat in an inundation, and raises ...... in supplication.

62-85 You make him shine like gold, and polish him like bronze, then you restore him to the benign hands of his Lord. ...... shining, and lifts his head proudly. ...... appears gloriously in the Land.

......, you release ...... for your beloved. ......, you place ...... for your little ones. ......, you release ...... for your little ones. ......, you release ...... for your great ones.

...... on the fifteenth day.

You are the merciful king of the foreign lands ......, looking mercifully .......

Version B (fragment of a divergent version)

1-8 ....... like Culpaed. My king ...... may he call your name.