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Title: Babylonian religion and mythology
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: King, L. W. (Leonard William), 1869-1919
Subjects: Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian Assyro-Babylonian religion
Publisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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enly Shutu, the Southwind, blew and upset his boat and threw him into thewater. Adapa was furious at this outrage, so hecaught the South wind by her wings and broke them.In this passage the South wind is pictured as a wingedfemale monster, and it is possible that in other respectsalso she was thought to resemble a bird. We haveno representation of her, but it may be inferred thatshe was a creature of unprepossessing appearance,for the South wind was dreaded by the Babylonians i Have mercy upon me, and I will present thee with a gift according to thy pleasure/ The Serpent opened his mouth and spake to the Eagle: If I release thee, Shamash will . . . against us, And thy punishment will be transferred to me, Which now, as a punishment, I execute on thee., So he tore off his wings, his pinions, and his talons, He pulled him in pieces and cast him into a pit, . . . And he died a death from hunger and thirst. 1 See above, p. 118 f.; cf. Harper, Beitrage zur Assyriologie, Bd. II.,pp. 418 ff.
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Head of the demon of the South-west wind. (British Museum, No. 22,450.) \ ADAPA IS SUMMONED TO HEAVEN. I91 inasmuch as it caused destructive floods in the low-lying regions of the Euphrates valley. The accompany-ing illustration of a kindred spirit, the demon of theSouth-west wind, is taken from a marble head inthe British Museum, and it well represents the hideousconception formed by the Babylonians of the monsterwho caused destructive storms and tempests. When Adapa had broken Shutus wings, the Southwind was no longer able to blow over the earth.After seven days had passed, Anu, the god of heaven,asked his minister Ilabrat why the South wind hadceased to blow, and he told him that Adapa hadbroken her wings. Anu thereupon summoned Adapato heaven to answer the charge. Before he set outAdapa received instructions from his father Ea, whotold him how, by putting on garments of mourning,he would propitiate Tammuz and Gishzida, the twogods who stood at the gate of heaven, and who, ifapproa

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