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(beginning (approximately 15 lines) broken away) (1') You prepare [......] (2') You prepare [......] (3') [......] (and) you put [...] upon [them]. (4') [......] (and) prepare [......]. (5') [......] of budê-confection (6') [......] you place on the table [...] (7') [......] you place on it [...] (8') [......] you put a [kam]anu-cake (made) with zīzu-onion [...] (9') [......] (and) you say: [...]. (10') [You ......], (and) sing, “[......].” (11') [You ......] pour [bee]r and wine (12') [You ......] place [......] (13') [You ......], (and) sing, “[......].” (14') [You ...... po]ur [beer and…
Religion & MythDaily Life
(1) When the (proper) time arrives, the sacrificer enters the Equ house. In the Equ house he proceeds to the right to the table before the Mouth-and-Tongue, and kindles with the torch in his hand the censer before the Mouth-and-Tongue. Grasping the torch with his left hand, he twice pours aromatics into the censer before the Mouth-and-Tongue. He breaks a bread cake upon the table, cools the eating-bowl twice, and twice performs a libation of beer into the pithos. (8) He scatters mixed aromatics into a portable censer, places a vagina of lead weighing half a mina before the Mouth-and-Tongue,…
Religion & MythDaily Life