In Daché and Dachos it is easy to see that there has been a confusion between Greek { ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA~} and { ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA~}, which so closely resemble each other. Daché and Dachos should, therefore, be corrected into Laché and Lachos, the Lahmu and Lahamu (better Lahwu and Lahawu) of the Babylonian text. They were the male and female personifications of the heavens. Ansar and Kisar are the Greek author's Assoros and Kisaré, the "Host of Heaven" and the "Host of Earth" respectively. The three proceeding from them, Anos, Illinos, and Aos, are the well-known Anu, the god of the heavens; Illil, for En-lila, the Sumerian god of the earth and the Underworld; and Aa or Ea, the god of the waters, who seems to have been identified by some with Yau or Jah. Aa or Ea was the husband of Damkina, or Dawkina, the Dauké of Damascius, from whom, as he says, Belos, _i.e._ Bel-Merodach, was born, and if he did not "fabricate the world," at least he ordered it anew, after his great fight with the Dragon of Chaos, as we shall see when we come to the third tablet of the series.
After the lines printed above the text is rather defective, but it would seem that the god Nudimmud (Ae or Ea), "the wise and open of ear," next came into existence. A comparison is then apparently made between these deities on the one hand, and Tiamtu, Apsû, and Mummu on the other--to the disadvantage of the latter. On Apsû complaining that he had no peace by day nor rest by night on account of the ways of the gods, their sons, it was at last determined to make war upon them.
"They have become hostile, and at the side of Tiamtu they advance, Storming, planning, not resting night and day, They make ready for battle, wrathful (and) raging. They assemble themselves together, and make ready (for) the strife.
Ummu Hubur, she who created everything, Added irresistible weapons, produced giant serpents, Sharp of tooth, unsparing (their) stings (?) She caused poison to fill their bodies like blood.
Raging dragons clothed she with terrors, She endowed (them) with brilliance, she made (them) like the high ones (?) 'Whoever sees them may fright overwhelm, May their bodies rear on high, and may (none) turn aside their breast.'