And when the final words were spoken, the great god paused and I could hear a great sigh. And

he said: Endubsar my servant, for forty days and forty nights you have faithfully recorded my

words. Your task here is completed. Now take hold of another tablet, and on it you shall write

your own attestation, and at the end thereof as a witness mark it with your seal, and take the

tablet and put it together with the other tablets in the divine chest; for at a designated time

chosen ones shall come hither and they shall find the chest and the tablets, and they shall learn

all that I have dictated to you; and that true account of the Beginnings and the Prior Times and

the Olden Times and the Great Calamity shall henceforth be known as The Words of the Lord

Enki. And it shall be a Book of Witnessing of the past, and a Book of Foretelling the future, for

the future in the past lies and the first things shall also be the last things.

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New nations will become mighty, kingdoms shall rise and fall. The olden gods shall step aside

and new gods shall decree the fates. But at the end of days destiny shall prevail, and of that

future it is foretold in my words about the past. Of all that, Endubsar, to the people you shall

tell.

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One after another the gods fled their cities, their temples abandoned to the wind.

In my city, Eridu, as the poisoned cloud approached, I could do nothing to stop it.

Escape to the open steppe! to the people I gave instructions; with Ninki, my spouse, the city I

abandoned.

In his city Nippur, place of the Bond Heaven-Earth, Enlil could do nothing to stop it.

The Evil Wind against Nippur was onrushing. In his celestial boat, Enlil and his spouse hurriedly

took off.