[407] Translated from Langdon, The Sumerian Epic of Paradise, the Flood, and the Fall of Man, Philadelphia, 1915, Plates I and II. Langdon, as his title shows, regards the text as a description of Paradise, the flood, and the fall of man,—a view that the present writer cannot share. Dilmun is the name of the Babylonian Paradise, but the signs rendered Dilmun are not the ones employed to express that name. For the rest the text seems to describe the coming of rains, the beginnings of irrigation and agriculture, and the revelation of the medicinal qualities of certain plants. See The Nation, New York, November 18, 1915, pp. 597, ff. (For the tablet, see [Fig. 294].)
[408] Apparently another name of Ninshar.
[409] In Sumerian the goddess Nintulla.
[410] In Sumerian the goddess Ninkasi.
[411] In Sumerian the goddess Dazima.
[412] In Sumerian, Nintil.
[413] In Sumerian, Enshagme.
[414] See his Sumerian Epic of Paradise, the Flood, and the Fall of Man, p. 56.
[415] Translated from Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler der königlichen Museen zu Berlin, VII. No. 92.