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Philologos
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24 Jul 2011, 11:47 pm

motl was inquiring:

Babylonian hymn:

Of Bel, mighty hand,

Who lifts up glory and splendour, day of power.

Fearfulness he establishes.

Lord of DUN.PA.UD.DU.A, mighty hand.

Fearfulness he establishes.

Stormy one, father, mother, creator, mighty hand.

The catch-net he throws over the hostile land.

Lord, great warrior, mighty hand.

A firm house he raises up; the enemy he overthrows.

The shining one, lord of Nippur, mighty hand.

The lord, the life of the land, the massu of heaven and earth.

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source http://www.archive.org/stream/sumerianh ... a_djvu.txt

This is kind of Reader's Digest of the Ugaritic:

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Geo ... /baal.html



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25 Jul 2011, 6:55 am

The lord of murder shall perish, but in his death he shall spawn a score of mortal progeny.
Chaos shall be sown in their footsteps.
That god was Bhaal, lord of murder, and you are one of his children.



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25 Jul 2011, 9:11 am

Subotai wrote:
The lord of murder shall perish, but in his death he shall spawn a score of mortal progeny.
Chaos shall be sown in their footsteps.
That god was Bhaal, lord of murder, and you are one of his children.


Speak for yourself. Somehow I do not think the usually mild-mannered Classicist who taught me abour regular phonetic correspondence was lord of murder.

A very unsatisfactory definition of divine entity, and they should have set a real linguist to construct pseudonames - Bhaal is - how you say - cheesy.