The ancient
Mesopotamian myth beginning
Lugal-e ud me-lám-bi nir-gál, also known as
Ninurta's Exploits is a great epic telling of the warrior-god and god of spring thundershowers and floods, his deeds, waging war against his mountain rival
á-sàg (“Disorder”;
Akkadian:
Asakku), destroying cities and crushing skulls, restoration of the flow of the river
Tigris, returning from war in his “beloved barge”
Ma-kar-nunta-ea and afterward judging his defeated enemies, determining the character and use of 49 stones, in 231 lines of the text. It is a bilingual work with origin in the late third millennium.