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Rpsh Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

overtake them

Lahmu and Lahamu,
were named; they were not yet old,
not yet grown tall
when Anshar and Kishar overtook them both,
the lines of sky and earth
stretched where horizons meet to separate
cloud from silt.

I think in this text the word "overtook" means "Anshar and Kishar" came to be taller than Lahmu and Lahamu. Do you think so?
  

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You can't be sure what it means without more context. Clive

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You can't be sure what it means without more context.

Clive
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Lahmu and Lahamu: Male and female primordial beings.
Anshar and Kishar: The horizon of the sky (male) and the horizon of the earth (female).

Here are more lines:

When there was no heaven,
no earth, no height, no depth, no name,
when Apsu1 was alone,
the sweet water, the first begetter; and Tiamat
the bitter water, and that
return to the womb, her Mummu,
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Where do your original lines fit into that?
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When there was no heaven, no earth, no height, no depth, no name,when Apsu1 was alone,the sweet water, the first begetter; and Tiamatthe bitter water, and that return to the womb, her Mummu,when there were no gods —When sweet and bittermingled together, no reed was plaited, no rushesmuddied the water, the gods were nameless, natureless, futureless, thenfrom Apsu and Tiamatin the waters gods were
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Perhaps you are right.
But much of this text seems to me hard to interpret.
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Anyway, thank you so much!
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