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112 Looking at the Hammurabi stela recording his law code (Fig. 47), we see him receiving the laws from none other than Utu/Shamash—the very one, according to the above- quoted list, whose prerogatives as God of Justice now be- longed to Marduk; and the preamble inscribed on the stela invoked Anu and Enlil—the one whose “Lordship and Coun- sel” were presumably taken over by Marduk—as the gods to whom Marduk was beholden for his status: Lofty Anu, Lord of the gods who from heaven to Earth came, and Enlil, Lord of Heaven and Earth who determines the Land’s destinies, Determined for Marduk, the firstborn of Enki, the Enlil-functions over all mankind. These acknowledgments of the continued empowerment of Enlilite gods, two centuries after the Age of Marduk began, reflect the actual state of affairs: They did not come to retire in Marduk’s sacred precinct. Dispersed away from Sumer, some accompanied their followers to far lands in the four corners of the Earth; others remained nearby, rallying their followers, old and new, to a renewed challenge to Marduk. THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 47