[761] To prayer.

[762] The gods or the Igigi.

[763] See p. [486] and Gunkel's note, Schöpfung und Chaos, p. 26.

[764] See above, p. [434]. The play is between Nibir (as though from the stem ebêru) and itebbiru ("he pierced"), a form of ebêru, and meaning 'to pass through.'

[765] This metaphor is carried over into astronomical science. The planets are known as "wandering sheep." See p. [459].

[766] Bêl matâte.

[767] See p. [118].

[768] Similarly in another version of the contest published by Delitzsch, Assyr. Wörterbuch, p. 390.

[769] See p. [54].

[770] Tiele (Gesch. der Religion im Alterthum, I. 176) assigns to Marduk a double character, making him both a god of light and a god of storms, but I venture to think that the latter attribute represents the transference of En-lil's power to Marduk.