Sleep has fallen upon him like a storm."
Says the wife to Parnapishtim:
"Transform him, let the man eat of the charm-root,[986]
Let him return, restored in health, on the road that he came.
Through the gage let him pass out, back to his country."
Parnapishtim says to his wife:
"The torture of the man pains thee.
Cook the food[987] for him and place it at his head."
It is interesting to note that the woman appears as the exorciser of the disease. The wife of Parnapishtim—whose name is not mentioned as little as is the wife of Noah or Lot—proceeds to prepare the magic food. A plant of some kind is taken and elaborately treated.
While he[988] slept on board of his ship,