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 6. ruling to the river

7. There were seven of them. The first was

8. the second was a great animal

9. which any one

10. the third was a leopard

11. the fourth was a serpent

12. the fifth was a terrible which to

13. the sixth was a striker which to god and king did not submit,

14. the seventh was the messenger of the evil wind which made.

15. The seven of them messengers of the god Anu their king

16. from city to city went round

17. the tempest of heaven was strongly bound to them,

18. the flying clouds of heaven surrounded them,

19. the downpour of the skies which in the bright day

20. makes darkness, was attached to them

21. with a violent wind, an evil wind, they began,

22. the tempest of Vul was their might,

23. at the right hand of Vul they came,

24. from the surface of heaven like lightning they darted,

25. descending to the abyss of waters, at first they came.

26. In the wide heavens of the god Anu the king

27. evil they set up, and an opponent they had not.