I pray unto thee, lady of ladies, goddess of goddesses.[31]
I reverence thy name, Marduk, powerful one of the gods,[32]
Regent of heaven and earth.
Lord, leader of the Igigi, I am obedient to thy word.[33]
Strong one, glorious one, begotten of Nunammir
Who art clothed with sublimity, powerful one I will praise thy name.[34]
On the other hand there is but one example of the actual use of the first person plural in the hymnal introductions:
Father Enlil with song majestically we come,
The presents of the ground are offered to thee as sacrifice.[35]
It is not contended that the hymnal introductions are strongly individual in character, showing the marks of individual originality and genius; on the contrary they are on the whole rather stereotyped and monotonous in their sameness: neither is it urged that the god of these hymnal introductions seems to be in any very marked way the god of the individual human being, but that the hymnal prayer does provide a way for the individual to approach deity in the sanctuary, and that worship was accordingly individual as well as social.