[In the British Museum tablets lines 63-108 are either wanting entirely, or are too broken to translate, and the last 130 lines of the Berlin fragment are much mutilated. The fragments of text show that Ea waged war against Apsu and Mummu. Ea recited an incantation which caused Apsu to fall asleep. He then "loosed the joints" of Mummu, who in some way suffered, but he was strong enough to attack Ea when he turned to deal with Apsu. Ea overcame both his adversaries and divided Apsu into chambers and laid fetters upon him. In one of the chambers of Apsu a god was begotten and born. According to the Ninevite theologians Ea begat by his wife, who is not named, his son Marduk, and according to the theologians of the City of Ashur, Lakhmu begat by his wife Lakhamu a son who is no other than Anshar, or Ashur. A nurse was appointed to rear him, and he grew up a handsome child, to the great delight of his father. He had four ears and four eyes, a statement which suggests that he was two-headed, and resembled the Latin god Janus.] 109. They formed a band, and went forth to battle to help Tiamat. 110. They were exceedingly wroth, they made plots by day and by night without ceasing. 111. They offered battle, fuming and raging. 112. They set the battle in array, they uttered cries[1] of hostility, [Footnote 1: Literally, "they excited themselves to hostility."] 113. Ummu-Khubur,[1] who fashioned all things, [Footnote 1: A title of Tiamat.] 114. Set up the unrivalled weapon, she spawned huge serpents, 115. Sharp of tooth, pitiless in attack (?) 116. She filled their bodies with venom instead of blood, 117. Grim, monstrous serpents, arrayed in terror, 118. She decked them with brightness, she fashioned them in exalted forms, 119. So that fright and horror might overcome him that looked upon them, 120. So that their bodies might rear up, and no man resist their attack, 121. She set up the Viper, and the Snake, and the god Lakhamu, 122. The Whirlwind, the ravening Dog, the Scorpion-man, 123. The mighty Storm-wind, the Fish-man, the horned Beast (Capricorn?) 124. They carried the Weapon[1] which spared not, nor flinched from the battle. [Footnote 1: These nine monsters with the Weapon (Thunderbolt?) and Kingu form the Eleven Allies of Tiamat, and it is clear that she and her Allies represent the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac. When Marduk destroyed Tiamat and her associates, he found it necessary to fix the stars, the images of the great gods, in their places, as the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac. (See the Fifth Tablet of Creation, p. 55.)] 125. Most mighty were Tiamat's decrees, they could not be resisted, 126. Thus she caused eleven [monsters] of this kind to come into being, 127. Among the gods, her first-born son who had collected her company, 128. That is to say, Kingu, she set on high, she made him the great one amongst them, 129. Leader of the hosts in battle, disposer of the troops,