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|text = [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}|'''{{PAGENAME}}''']] is the incipit of a famed section in the [[w:Epic of Gilgamesh|Epic of Gilgamesh]], an epic Mesopotamian poem, and one of the earliest surviving works of literature. | |||
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:''Adapted from an English translation of the Akkadian version, from Tablet VI''. | |||
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⸫iṣtara mæn ⸫anu ga bunā takulek : | |||
"bunē lairī snīdbhu męlyūyūsi : | |||
tami ⸫gilgamešu amahe kautedrēt ।। | |||
pū nyēt lairī snīdbhu gu męlyatyūsi | |||
uḍūkabāni geiraih šutayuṃrūndhāltam : | |||
geirjagdhrāṣa bītedadrāltam sama geiraih bikṣutevautildālam | |||
sama uḍūkaih yanatiākayeɂęryāltaṃte liląaih yųlēt ! | |||
sama uḍūkē liląenīs narenanūjalṣya !" | |||
</poem> | |||
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Ishtar spoke to her father, Anu, saying: | |||
"Father, give me the Bull of Heaven, | |||
so he can kill Gilgamesh in his dwelling. | |||
If you do not give me the Bull of Heaven, | |||
I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld, | |||
I will smash the door posts, and leave the doors flat down, | |||
and will let the dead go up to eat the living! | |||
And the dead will outnumber the living!" | |||
</poem> | |||
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Ishtar spoke to her father/Chlouvānem is the incipit of a famed section in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic Mesopotamian poem, and one of the earliest surviving works of literature. |
- Adapted from an English translation of the Akkadian version, from Tablet VI.
⸫iṣtara mæn ⸫anu ga bunā takulek :
"bunē lairī snīdbhu męlyūyūsi :
tami ⸫gilgamešu amahe kautedrēt ।।
pū nyēt lairī snīdbhu gu męlyatyūsi
uḍūkabāni geiraih šutayuṃrūndhāltam :
geirjagdhrāṣa bītedadrāltam sama geiraih bikṣutevautildālam
sama uḍūkaih yanatiākayeɂęryāltaṃte liląaih yųlēt !
sama uḍūkē liląenīs narenanūjalṣya !"
Ishtar spoke to her father, Anu, saying:
"Father, give me the Bull of Heaven,
so he can kill Gilgamesh in his dwelling.
If you do not give me the Bull of Heaven,
I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld,
I will smash the door posts, and leave the doors flat down,
and will let the dead go up to eat the living!
And the dead will outnumber the living!"