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When Marduk heard the word of the gods, his heart prompted him and he devised a cunning plan.
He told his plan to Ea [Enki]:
“My blood will I take and bone will I fashion I will make man, that man may I will create man who shall inhabit the earth.*
Superphysics Note!
That the service of the gods may be established, and that their shrines may be built.
But I will alter the ways of the gods, and I will change their paths.
Together shall they be oppressed and unto evil shall they….
Ea answered him and spake the word:
[The rest of the text is wanting with the exception of the last few lines of the tablet, which read as follows.]
They rejoiced…
In Upsukkinnaku they set their dwelling.
Of the heroic son, their avenger, they cried:
“We, whom he succored…. !”
They seated themselves and in the assembly they named him…,
They all cried aloud, they exalted him…
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