" Chinese paper, made from the bark of the bamboo, the mulberry, or the khu-ku tree, and so extremely thin that it can only be used on one side, is supposed to have been invented fifty years before the Christian era or earlier.

sound loud the nappa-khu!

[Footnote 11: "Nap-pa-khu," war-trumpet.]

Now roars the thunder of great Accad's cars, Their brazen chariots as blazing stars Through Nuk-khu's depths with streams of blazing fire, Thus fall upon the foe with vengeful ire.

] [Footnote 6: "Nuk-khu," darkness (god of darkness).]

a lofty prince doth stand, A warrior, and son of the blue sea, Before the God of Fire in thine own land, Before thy holy fires that from us free Dread Darkness, where dark Nuk-khu reigns.

"Perchance the su-khu-li sleep not!"

" [Footnote 1: "Su-khu-li," guards of the palace.

"'Tis I, Prince Dib-bara, Lord Izdubar, And now at last alone we meet in war; My soldiers you o'erthrew upon the field, But here to Nuk-khu's son thine arm shall yield!"

[Footnote 2: "Su-khu-li rabi," attendants of the King.]

[Footnote 14: "Dib-bara" ("the darkening one"), the son of Nuk-khu.

[Footnote 15: "Nuk-hu," or "Nuk-khu," the god of darkness and sleep.

resound the joyful cries, And through the gates of Erech Suburi Now file the chieftains, Su-khu-li rubi.

" In silence, Izdubar the warning heard; His blood with terror froze, and then was stirred By passions wild, when he recalled the scene Of Ishtar's love for him by man unseen; When she so wildly then proclaimed her love; And now with hate his inmost soul doth move, And her bright form to a black dal-khu turned And furious passions on his features burned.

" [Footnote 1: "Su-khu-li ru-bi," attendants of the King.]

[Footnote 4: "Dal-khu," an evil spirit, a demon.

The Su-khu-li with tinkling bells proclaim, "Our Sar would speak!

[Footnote 1: "Su-khu-li," the attendants.]

My su-khu-li then sought thy presence fell.

snatched by a dal-khu's hand it flies Away within the gloom, then falling dies Within those waters black with a loud hiss That breaks the silence of that dread abyss.

The Fiends of Darkness gathered lie in wait, With Mammitu, the goddess of fierce hate, And Gibil with his spells, and Nibiru The twin-god of black Fate, and grim Nusku The keeper of red thunders, and Urbat The dog of Death, and fiend of Queen Belat; And Nuk-khu, and the black-browed Ed-hutu The gods of darkness here with Tsi-lat-tu.

Ra-di-tar-tu-khu.

This star was also called "Ra-di-tar-tu-khu."]

This king hated the god and his name so strongly that he changed his own name into that of "Khu-en-Aten," i.e., "the glory of the solar Disk," and ordered the name of Amen to be obliterated, wherever possible, on temples and other great monuments; and this was actually done in many places.

The KHU, like the KA, could be imprisoned in the tomb, and to obviate this catastrophe special formulae were composed and duly recited.