Maqlû Tablets And The Necronomicon Options

Reading through the maqlû tablets I noticed some similarities to Nec spells. I will post the similarities here as I record and find them for all to review.




The Necronomicon

The Conjuration "XILQA XILQA BESA BESA" or "A Most Exellant Charm
Aginst the Hordes of Demons" etc.

Arise! Arise! Go far away! Go far away!
Be shamed! Be shamed! Flee! Flee!
Turn around, go, arise and go far away!
Your wickedness may rise to heaven like unto smoke!
Arise and leave my body!
From my body, depart in shame!
From my body flee!
Turn away from my body!
Go away from my body!
Do not return to my body!
Do not come near my body!
Do not approach my body!
Do not throng around my body!
Be commanded by Shammash the Mighty!
Be commanded by Enki, Lord of All!
Be commanded by Marduk, the Great Magician of the Gods!
Be commanded by the God of Fire, your Destroyer!
May you be held back from my body!

From the maqlû : In cantation Ten - Isâ Isâ (be off, be off”)

A circle of flour is laid down, and the speaker commands the ghosts and demons to de-part And adjures them never to return.

isâ isâ rëqã rëqã
bëšã bëšã hilqã hilqã
duppirã atlakã isâ u rëqã
lumunkunu kīma qutri lītelli šamê

ina zumriya isâ
ina zumriya rëqã
ina zumriya bëšã
ina zumriya hilqã
ina zumriya duppirã
ina zumriya atlakã
ana zumriya lã taturrã
ana zumriya lã tetehhâ
ana zumriya lã teqerrebã
ana zumriya lã tasanniqã
nīš Šamaš kabti lữ tamâtunu
nīš Ea bël naqbi lữ tamâtunu
nīš Asalluhi mašãmš ilī lữ tamâtunu


nīš Girra qãmikunu lữ tamâtunu
ina zumriya lữ tapparrasãma

Translation of Incantation Ten by the Scholar Tzvi Abusch

[quote]Be off, be off, begone, begone,
Depart, Depart, flee, flee!
Go off, go away, be off, and begone!
May your Wickedness like smoke rise ever heavenward!

[quote]From my body be off!
From my body begone!
From my body depart!
From my body flee!
From my body go off!
From my body go away!
To my body turn back not!
To my body approach not!
To my body near not!
On my body abut not!
By the life of Šamaš, the honorable, be adjured!
By the life Ea, lord of the deep, be adjured!
By the life of Asalluhi, the magus of the gods, be adjured!
By the life of Girra, your executioner, be adjured!
From my body you shall indeed be separated!
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This post has been edited by distillate: May 13 2006, 02:35 AM

OK, my quest for ZI DINGIR ANNA KANPA ZI DINGIR KIA KANPA continues.

Bought 'Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia' by R. Campbell Thompson written in 1898. In it he provides transliterations and translations of magical tablets but not the tablets themselves. The tables can be found at:
http://lib11.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib...code=ABZU&auth=

The nice thing about some of this tablets is that sometimes they are bilingual and provide a translation on Akkadian. The phrase ZI ANNA KANPA ZI KIA KANPA in akkadian is:

nish shame(e) lu-ta-ma-ta nish irsitim(tim) lu-ta-ma-ta (cant show diacritic marks here (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) )

So KANPA is lu-ta-ma-ta, sometimes spelled as lu-u-ta-ma-a-ta in akkadian. (But I have looked in akkadian dictionaries and have not found a translation in english yet). R. C. Thompson translates the phrase as: 'By Heaven be thou excorsised! By Earth be thou exorcised!

As far as the sumerian gliphs, I've compared them to Deimel's sign list available at:
http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/tools/SignLists/LAK/index.html

and ZI is sign 468, KAN is 644 and PA is 423

C.J. Gadd's reading book (1924) uses the same signs but transliterates as ZI=zi, KAN=he, PA=pad and translates as:
'In the name of heaven be it conjured! In the name of earth be it conjured!

Moving ahead about 80 years get get from the online sumerian dictionary at:
http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/nepsd-frame.html

ZI=zi [Life] first sign, KAN=he2 [BE], PA = pad3 or pa3 [FIND]

So far I got Exorcised!, Conjured!, Adjured! and of course, Remember!. I dont think the experts really know what it means,
But now I know how to write it in cuneiform (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) (maybe later, after I figure out how to do it, I'll post the images of the cuneiform signs.)

If I figure out anything else on the meaning, I'll write as well. I have the Uddug Hul book on order an hopefully I'll get more info from there.

Traveller.