Nippur was unbuilt, its temple of Ê-kur was unerected;
Erech was unbuilt, its temple of Ê-ana was unerected;[297]
the deep sea was uncreated, Eridu unbuilt.
The site of (its) holy house, the house of the gods, existed not,
all the earth was sea,
while in the midst of the sea was a water-course.
In those days was Eridu built and the temple of Ê-Saggil founded,
Ê-Saggil wherein dwells the divine king of the holy mound in the midst of the deep;—
Babylon was built, Ê-Saggil completed;—
the spirits of the earth were created together,