As the dawn Sun came shown through the ninth east gate,
The disc in Marduk’s temple glowed intensely
The light was different
The glow was deep green!
Cohen woke with a start,
His skin felt like it was crawling,
Rising from the reed bed he stumbled over the stool,
As he picked himself up he realised something was wrong.
One step,
Three steps,
Cohen leapt a s he ascended the stairs ,
The air was thick, heavy and Green.
He reached the sanctum of the the temple,
Through the ninth east gate
The jade light shone
Bathing the room completely!
Well not completely ,
A shaft of white light pierced the room,
It was shining on the glyph of
DIN.GIR.
‘Elhoim come’he bellowed
Moving up the West wall,
He looked out the gate,
The source of the jade light was clearly seen.
On the San peek of the nearby mountains
A peek was missing,
There was a crater
A jade obliesk was in the crater.
There it stood
Throbbing as it the jade light emanated from its core
Even from where he stood the heat was seering,
“Entu, how can I assist”.
Get the tablets of Enûma Eliš and Maqlû
Meet me at the sanctum santory.
Cohen returned to the south wall
Searching for the mark of Enki.
The light made the zigzaged lines eerie
Pushing the mark a low rumble was heard,
Slowly the centre slab in the floor under the disc slid away.
A dark abyss was laid bare.
Elhoim joined him at the precipice,
His mentor had taught him well he thought
The secrets of Marduk most be true,
Looking down in to the dark opening the way was clear.
They made steady progess down the long shaft,
It was engineered to allow them to go one after the other
The air felt stale as the descended,
“Stop”, Cohen called out.
The handholds were damaged,
There was scaring on the stone
Deep gauges, easily felt
They continued their descent!