Elsewhere [Footnote: Ibid., Vol. Ii. P. 51.]
O Thou; thy words who can resist? who can rival them?
Among the gods thy brothers, thou hast no equal!
A Prayer [Footnote: Idem.]
The god my creator, may he stand by my side!
Keep thou the door of my lips! guard thou my hands, O Lord of light!
Ode to Fire
(The original text of this will be found in 4 R 14 l. 6 which is a lithographic copy of the tablet K, 44. A part of it was translated some years ago from a photograph of that tablet; see No. 430 of my Glossary.
Very few Assyrian odes are so simple and intelligible as this is: unfortunately most of them are mystical and hard of interpretation.)
1 O Fire, great Lord, who art the most exalted in the world, 2 noble Son of heaven, who art the most exalted in the world, 3 O Fire, with thy bright flame 4 in the dark house thou dost cause light. 5 Of all things that can be named, Thou dost form the fabric! 6 Of bronze and of lead, Thou art the melter! 7 Of silver and of gold, Thou art the refiner! 8 Of … Thou art the purifier! 9 Of the wicked man in the night time Thou dost repel the assault! 10 But the man who serves his god, Thou wilt give him light for his actions!