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ENGLISH - Tooth Worm Incantation - The First Millennium BC - George Heath-Whyte

After Anum (the sky god) created the heavens,

(and) the heavens created the earth,

(and) the earth created rivers,

(and) rivers created canals,

(and) canals created mud,

(and) mud created the worm,

the worm went crying before Šamaš,

its tears flowed before Ea:

“What have you given for me to eat?

What have you given for me to suck?”

“I have given you the ripe fig and the apricot”

“What good is that to me, the ripe fig and the apricot?

Place me and let me dwell between tooth and gum,

so I can suck the tooth’s blood

and mince up the gum!”

Drive in the peg and seize the foot (while saying:)

“Because you said this, worm,

may Ea strike you with his mighty hand!”

This is a recording of the First Millennium BCE by George Heath-Whyte of the Tooth Worm Incantation.
A translation of the incantation can be found at goo.gl/qiZqtx
This is part of the Babylonian and Assyrian Poetry and Literature: An Archive of Recordings project at SOAS University of London.
You can find out more about this project at www.soas.ac.uk/baplar/