* The Euphrates, in the great curve described by it across Naharaim, after issuing from the mountains of Cilicia.
** The meaning is doubtful. The word signifies pools, marshes, the provinces situated beyond Egyptian territory, and consequently the distant parts of the world--those which are nearest the ocean which encircles the earth, and which was considered as fed by the stagnant waters of the celestial Nile, just as the extremities of Egypt were watered by those of the terrestrial Nile.
[Illustration: 006.jpg A PROCESSION OF NEGROES]
I.--I am come that I may grant unto thee to crush the great ones of Zahi, I throw them under thy feet across their mountains,--I grant to thee that they shall see Thy Majesty as a lord of shining splendour when thou shinest before them in my likeness!
II.--I am come, to grant thee that thou mayest crush those of the country of Asia, to break the heads of the people of Lotanû,--I grant thee that they may see Thy Majesty, clothed in thy panoply, when thou seizest thy arms, in thy war-chariot.
III.--I am come, to grant thee that thou mayest crush the land of the East, and invade those who dwell in the provinces of Tonûtir,--I grant that they may see Thy Majesty as the comet which rains down the heat of its flame and sheds its dew.
IV.--I am come, to grant thee that thou mayest crush the land of the West, so that Kafîti and Cyprus shall be in fear of thee,--I grant that they may see Thy Majesty like the young bull, stout of heart, armed with horns which none may resist.
V.--I am come, to grant thee that thou mayest crush those who are in their marshes, so that the countries of Mitanni may tremble for fear of thee,--I grant that they may see Thy Majesty like the crocodile, lord of terrors, in the midst of the water, which none can approach.
VI.--I am come, to grant thee that thou mayest crush those who are in the isles, so that the people who live in the midst of the Very-Green may be reached by thy roaring,--I grant that they may see Thy Majesty like an avenger who stands on the back of his victim.
VII.--I am come, to grant that thou mayest crush the Tihonu, so that the isles of the Utanâtiû may be in the power of thy souls,--I grant that they may see Thy Majesty like a spell-weaving lion, and that thou mayest make corpses of them in the midst of their own valleys.
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