... they all announced ...............”
What they proclaimed and announced was apparently his glorious names, as detailed in the seventh and last tablet of the series, which was regarded by George Smith as containing an address to primitive man, but which proves to be really an address to the god Merodach praising him on account of the great work that he had done in overcoming the Dragon, and in thereafter ordering the world anew. As this portion forms a good specimen of Babylonian poetry at its best, the full text of the tablet, with the exception of some short remains of lines, is here presented in as careful a translation as is at present possible.
The Seventh Tablet Of The Creation-Series, Also Known As The Tablet Of The Fifty-One Names.
1 Asari, bestower of planting, establisher of irrigation.
2 Creator of grain and herbs, he who causes verdure to grow.
3 Asari-alim, he who is honoured in the house of counsel, [who increases counsel?].
4 The gods bow down to him, fear [possesses them?].
5 Asari-alim-nunna, the mighty one, light of the father his begetter.
6 He who directs the oracles of Anu, Bel, [and Aa].
7 He is their nourisher, who has ordained....