Like Šara, Inanas beloved son, shoot forth with your barbed arrows like a sunbeam, shoot forth with reed-arrows like moonlight! May the barbed arrows be a horned viper to those they hit! Like a fish killed with the cleaver, may they be magic-cut! May you bundle them up like logs hewn with the axe! from Lugalbanda and the Anzud bird: c.1.8.2.2 I am Šulgi, god of manliness, the foremost of the troops. When I stretch the bowstring on the bow, when I fit a perfect arrow to it, I shoot the bows arrow with the full strength of my arms. The great wild bull, the bull of heaven, the wild cow and the bison bellow. As they pass across the foothills of the mountains, I shoot barbed arrows at them with my powerful strength. (1 line unclear)As they collapse (?) on the plain, I topple them like old towers. I make their heads plunge to the ground like crushing pestles. A praise poem of Šulgi (Šulgi B): c.2.4.2.02 ref: The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)
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