[433] I.e., may thy anger depart.
[434] IVR. 9.
[435] 'The illuminator,' one of the names of Sin. See above, p. [75].
[436] The name of Sin's temple at Ur.
[437] A metaphor descriptive of the moon, because of the resemblance of the crescent to a horn.
[438] The moon-god is pictured with a long beard on the seal cylinders. See p. [76].
[439] I.e., unlike other products, the moon's fullness is self-created.
[440] A reference perhaps to the supposed influence of the moon on the tides.
[441] The rest of the hymn—some dozen lines—is too fragmentary to warrant translation.
[442] We have, however, a list (IIR. 58, no. 5) giving many titles and names of Ea that must have been prepared on the basis of Ea hymns.