Ansar Urges Gaga to Fight Tiamat

Ansar spoke to Gaga, his minister:

“O Gaga, you minister that rejoicest my spirit, I will I send you unto Lahmu and Lahamu. … thou canst attain, … thou shalt cause to be brought before you. … let the gods, all of them,

Make ready for a feast, at a banquet let them sit, Let them eat bread, let them mix wine, That for Marduk, their avenger they may decree the fate.

Go, Gaga, stand before them, and all that I tell thee, repeat unto them, and say:

‘Ansar, your son, hath sent me,

The purpose of his heart he hath made known unto me.

He saith that Tiamat our mother hath conceived a hatred for us [and repeated her plot]

I sent Anu, but he could not withstand her.

Nudimmud was afraid and turned back.

But Marduk hath set out, the director of the gods, your [Enki’s] son.

To set out against Tiamat his heart hath prompted him.

He opened his mouth and spake unto me, saying: “If I, your avenger, conquer Tiamat and give you life, appoint an assembly, make my fate preeminent and proclaim it.

In Upsukkinaku seat yourself joyfully together;

With my word in place of you will I decree fate.

May whatsoever I do remain unaltered,

May the word of my lips never be changed nor made of no avail.”’

Hasten, therefore, and swiftly decree for him the fate which you bestow,

That he may go and fight your strong enemy.