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| | The temple hymns: translation |
 | | Exalted in holy song and antiphony, singing with a loud voice, the child, the true wild cow, taken care of at the holy breast of the mother who begot her, Dumuzid-abzu, has erected a house in your precinct, O shrine Kinirca, and taken her seat upon your dais. |
 | | Holy staff, teat of heaven with rain for fine barley, the pilasters of your house are a wild bull with lowered horns, your......, foundation and wall rising of their own accord,......, thick cloud,...... |
 | | Mother Nintud, the lady of creation, performs her task within your dark place, binding the true suh crown on the new-born king, setting the crown on the new-born lord who is secure in her hand. |
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