It is watered by the Nile, which begins to swell every year in the month Elul, and continues swelling during that month and Tisri[30], making the earth fruitful.

E. [30] Elul contains from the middle of August to the middle of September and Tisri from that to the middle of October.

The Sabat-tu of Elul!

The Hebrew names for the months, were also proper nouns: to wit, Abib, Zif, Sivan, Thamuz, Ab, Elul, Tisri, Marchesvan, Chisleu, Tebeth, Shebat, Adar; the year, with the ancient Jews, beginning, as ours once did, in March.

But the events of the actual human existence of this Lord of Poictesmevery much as the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa has been identified with the wood-demon Barbatos, and the prophet Elijah, "caught up into the chariot of the Vedic Vayu," has become one with the Slavonic Perun,have been inextricably blended with the legends of the Dirghic Manu-Elul, Lord of August.

So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.