Tukulti-Ninurta’s vigour (1)

Text
Tukulti-Ninurta Epic, A.1.11’-21’:
Incendiary is his onrush, it burns the disobedient right and left. His radiance is terrifying, it overwhelms all foes, every pious king of the four world regions stands in awe of him. When he bellows like thunder, mountains totter, and when he brandishes his weapon like Ninurta, all regions of the earth everywhere hover in panic. Through the destiny of Nudimmud, he is reckoned as flesh godly in his limbs, by fiat of the lord of the world, he was cast sublimely from the womb of the gods. It is he who is the eternal image of Enlil, attentive to the people’s voice, the counsel of the land, because the lord of the world appointed him to lead the troops, he praised him with his very lips, Enlil exalted him as if he (Enlil) were his (Tukulti-Ninurta’s) own father, right after his first-born son. Precious is he in Enlil’s family, for where there is competition, he has of him protection.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Tukulti-Ninurta Epic, A.1.11’-21’

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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