[731] Gasping, as it were, for breath.
[732] Cory's Ancient Fragments, p. 49.
[733] Lit., 'places,' here used as a synonym for 'heavens,' as an Assyrian commentator expressly states. See Delitzsch's remarks (Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos, p. 147) against Jensen's and Zimmern's interpretation.
[734] I.e., Ea. See above, p. [424], [note 3].
[735] The complete proof is brought by Jensen, Kosmologie, pp. 246-253.
[736] To render the word used as "Palace" (so Delitzsch), while not incorrect, is somewhat misleading.
[737] Kosmologie, p. 199.
[738] Magie und Wahrsagekunst der Chaldaer, p. 163.
[739] See the illustration in Jensen's Kosmologie, pl. 3.
[740] The word used also means "cities." A Babylonian district is naught but an extended city.