Lead-rope of the gods (1)

Text
SAA 3 2.8’:
Marduk has made firm and grasped in his hand the lead-rope of the Igigi and Anunnaki, the bond of hea[ven and earth].

Homer, Iliad 8.18-27:
Nay, come, make trial, you gods, that you all may know. Make yourself fast from heaven a chain of gold, and lay you hold thereof, all you gods and all goddesses; yet could you not drag to earth from out of heaven Zeus the counsellor most high, not though your laboured sore. But whenso I were minded to draw of a ready heart, then with earth itself should I draw you and with sea withal; and the rope should I thereafter bind about a peak of Olympus and all those things should hang in space. By so much am I above gods and above men.

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Homer, Iliad 8.18-27
SAA 3 2.8’

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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