Chapter VI

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By the life of heaven and the life of earth ye shall conjure him, That he may raise up from you; Anu and Enlil by the soul of heaven and the soul of earth ye shall conjure, That they may raise up from you The curse that has come upon the land, that they may remove it. Ziugiddu the king Before Anu and Enlil bowed his face to the earth. Life like a god’s he gave to him, An immortal spirit like a god’s he brought to him. Then Ziugiddu the king, Of the seed that was cursed, lord of mankind he made; In the fruitful land, the land of Dilmun .......... they made him dwell .........................................

At this point the last column is hopelessly broken. It is clear, however, from the part which remains that Ziugiddu is in this narrative translated to the Isle of the Blest as was Utnapishtim in the account translated in

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