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Summa Alu

Akkadian Omen Series

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Chapter 1

1 If a city is set on a height, living in that city will not be good. 2 If a city is set in a depression that city will be happy. 3 If city is set on a siddu, the people will not be happy. 4 If a city's residential section ... like an army camp ... 5 If a city is grumbling like a marsh-bird ... 6 If a city's residential section is continually fighting, that city ... 7 If a city's residential section is quiet, [that] city ... 8 If a city is making a howling sound ... 9 If a city is making a murmuring sound ... ] 10 If a city is making a rumbling sound, [that] city ... 11 If a city is repeatedly crying out, that city will be dispersed. 12 If a city moves underneath and makes a grumbling sound like an army camp, that city will soon be utterly dispersed. 13 If a city is regularly quiet, that city will go on normally. 14 If a city's springs are destroyed, that city will go to ruin. 15 If a city's top rises into the sky, that city will be abandoned.⁠ 16 If a city rises into the sky like a mountain peak, that city will be turned to rubble. 17 If cities rise into the sky like cloud(s), they will experience misfortune. 18 If the tops of cities' temples persistently rise to the sky, the foundation of the land will not be secure; the throne will change; the land will not be happy.

Chapter 104

1 If a man approaches an old woman (for sex) he will quarrel daily. 2 If a man is eating during intercourse, an attack [...] 3 If a man approaches a woman (for sex) while standing up, this activity is not good, the illness will afflict [him]. Alternatively, this man will suddenly collapse, afterward he will fall ill and the water of womanhood is neglected. 15 If a man gives into (his) manliness in captivity and while erect provokes the erection of (another) man: manliness is taken away from him, in distress he will see misfortune. 16 If a man is regularly engaged (in sexual activity) in the daytime of the afternoon: this man will have luck, happiness will be established for him. 17 If a man, a woman mounts him, this woman will take his manliness, for one month he will not have a personal god.⁠ 18 If a man speaks with a woman on a bed and he rises from the bed and acts in the way of a man (has an erection) this man, happiness and exultation will be established for him. Wherever he goes, he will find acceptance in every respect, he will always reach his goal.

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