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| | Chapter I |
 | | Apsu grew weary of listening to the commotion of the younger dragons and so he besought his mother Tiamat and asked her: "O Great Mother, Queen of All Dragons, Founder of our Race, let us not be forever plagued with the jabbering and |
 | | Apsu fearing Tiamat’s anger fled from her and went to consult his brother Mummu. |
 | | Of the fresh waters she created giant snakes with venom in the stead of blood, cloaked monsters that bore mantles of radiance, a horned serpent, a mushussu, a lahmu-hero, an ugallu-demon, a rabid dog, a scorpion-man, umu-demons, a fish-man, a bull-man, and the deadliest of them all Qingu, her champion. |
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