The Un-Holy Bible (B.C. edition)

THE TENTH TABLET In Sippar all the Anunnaki gathered, the Day of the Deluge they awaited.

It was at that time, as the tension of awaiting was mounting, That the lord Enki, asleep in his quarters, had a dream-vision.

In the dream-vision there appeared the image of a man, bright and shining like the heavens; And as the man Enki approached, Enki saw that the white-haired Galzu he was!

In his right hand an engraver's stylus he was holding, And in his left hand a tablet of lapis lazuli, shining smooth, he held.

And as he approached near enough by Enki's bed to stand, Galzu spoke up and said: Unwarranted your accusations against Enlil were, for only the truth he spoke; And the decision that as Enlil's Decision will be known, not he but Destiny decreed.

Now into your hands Fate take, for the Earthlings the Earth will inherit; Summon your son Ziusudra, without breaking the oath to him the coming calamity reveal.

A boat that the watery avalanche can withstand, a submersible one, to build him tell, Let him in it save himself and his kinfolk, And the seed of all that is useful, be it plant or animal, also take; That is the will of the Creator of All! And Galzu, in the dream-vision, with the stylus on the tablet an image drew, And placed the engraved tablet by the side of Enki's bed; And after that the image faded, the dream-vision ended, and Enki with a shudder awoke.

In his bed Enki for a while lying remained, with wonder the dream-vision he pondered: What was thereof the meaning, what omen did it hold?

Then, as off his bed he stepped, to and behold there was the tablet; What in a mere dream-vision he had seen now by his bedside materially was!

With trembling hands the lord Enki the tablet picked up, A design of a curious-shaped boat upon the tablet he saw, By the tablet's edge measuring markings there were, the boat's measures indicating!