143. They sat down and in their assembly they proclaimed his rank. 144. Every one of them pronounced his name in the sanctuary. SEVENTH TABLET. 1. O ASARI,--giver of plantations, appointer of sowing time, 2. Who dost make grain and fibrous plants, who makest garden herbs to spring up. 3. O ASARU-ALIM--who art weighty in the council-chamber, who art fertile in counsel, 4. To whom the gods pay worship (?) reverent ... 5. O ASARU-ALIM-NUNA--the adored light of the Father who begat him, 6. Who makest straight the direction of Anu, Bel, [and Ea].[1] [Footnote 1: This line seems to imply that Marduk was regarded as the instructor of the "old" gods; the allusion is, probably, to the "ways" of Anu, Bel and Ea, which are treated as technical terms in astrology.] 7. He is their patron who fixed [their] ... 8. Whose drink is abundance, who goeth forth ... 9. O TUTU--creator of their new life, 10. Supplier of their wants, that they may be satisfied [or, glad], 11. Let but [Tutu] recite an incantation, the gods shall be at rest; 12. Let but [the gods] attack him (i.e., Tutu) in wrath, he shall resist them successfully; 13. Let him be raised up on a high throne in the assembly of the gods.... 14. None among the gods is like unto him. 15. O god TUTU, who art the god ZI-UKKINA, life of the host of the gods, 16. Who stablished the shining heavens for the gods, 17. He founded their paths, he fixed [their courses]. 18. Never shall his deeds be forgotten among men. 19. O god TUTU, who art ZI-AZAG, was the third name they gave him--holder (i.e., possessor) of holiness, 20. God of the favourable wind, lord of adoration and grace, 21. Creator of fulness and abundance, stablisher of plenty, 22. Who turneth that which is little into that which is much. 23. In sore straits we have felt his favouring breeze. 24. Let them (the gods) declare, let them magnify, let them sing his praises. 25. O TUTU, who art the god AGA-AZAG in the fourth place--let men exult. 26. Lord of the holy incantation, who maketh the dead to live, 27. He felt compassion for the gods who were in captivity. 28. He riveted on the gods his enemies the yoke which had been resting on them. 29. In mercy towards them he created mankind, 30. The Merciful One in whose power it is to give life. 31. His words shall endure for ever, they shall never be forgotten, 32. In the mouth of the Black-headed[1] whom his hands have made. [Footnote 1: Here the title "Black-headed" refers to all mankind, but it is sometimes used by the scribes to distinguish the population of the Euphrates Valley from foreign peoples of light complexions.] 33. O God TUTU, who art the god MU-AZAG in the fifth place--let their mouth recite a holy incantation [to him], 34. Who by his own holy incantation hath destroyed all the evil ones. [Illustration: Portion of a tablet inscribed in Assyrian with a text of the Seventh Tablet of the Creation Series. [K. 8522.]]