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Lofty Marduk

Lord of the skies

He of the crossing

Amid the heliacal rise

Lord of the void

Enthroned within the Esagil

The temple of Fifty

Crowning the divine city

I have bound the Geme

To receive thy Ab

Upon the Etemenanki summit

I exalt thy blood

Thy word is law

Thy law is death

Inflicted upon thy foes

Rotting neath the parapets

Through the labour of a thousand mortals

Jubilant in boundless adulation

I raised morbid obelisks

Heavenward in eternal supplication

Their flesh as mortar

Their blood as bitumen

As Tiamat to Kishar

As above so below

(O) Grant me life eternal

Embrace me within thy spheres

Anoint me as Utnapishtim

Absolved from the passing of years

Rend my flesh immortal

Lend me forms without limit

Place me within thy kingdom

Looming beyond the zenith

I have brought great abundance

Upon almighty Ur

I have guarded with vigilance

The monstrous gates of the Ekur

I have raised vast monuments

And I have slain thy foes

I have crushed those

Who would oppose the king thou chose