At thy thunder the great mountain father Mullil is shaken;
At thy rumbling the great mother Ninlil trembles.
Part II of this hymn, lines 15-26, is made up of Enid’s summons to his son Ramman to go up with sonorous voice, with lightning, and with small and great hail stones against the hostile land. This section has already been discussed earlier in this chapter. Part III is in reality a brief conclusion to the hymn. It relates in four lines that Ramman obeyed the summons of Enlil:
Ramman gave ear to the words which his father spoke to him;
The father Ramman went out of the house storm of sonorous voice;
Out of the house, out of the city went he up, the youthful lion;
Out of the city took his way the storm of sonorous voice.
The third hymnal composition of this group, the so-called litany to Asshur, is in two parts. Part I is a long hymn addressed by an individual, possibly Asshurbanipal, to Asshur, of which the chief distinguishing characteristic is the oft repeated vow of the individual to praise the deity. Nineteen of the twenty-two lines of Part I are as follows:
Mighty lord of the gods, all knowing one;
Powerful stately lord of the gods, determiner of fates;