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99 "111 Winds" weapons, and attacked Zu as suggested by his fa- ther. "The earth shook . . . the [illegible] became dark, the skies became black .. the pinions of Zu were overcome." Zu was captured and brought back before Enlil in Nippur; the Tablet of Destinies was reinstalled where it belonged: “Lordship again en- tered the Ekur; the Divine Formulas were returned." The captured Zu was put on trial before a court-martial consist- ing of the Seven Great Anunnaki; he was found guilty and sen- tenced to death; Ninurta, his vanquisher, "cut his throat." Many depictions were found showing the trial scene, in which Zu, on ac- count of his association with the Igigi astronauts, was dressed up as a bird. An archaic relief found in central Mesopotamia illustrated the actual execution of Zu. This one shows | Zu—who belonged to SS 0 oS | re rae Fig. 26 Hk The Wars of the Olden Gods those "Who Observe and See"—as a demonic cock with an extra eye in the forehead (Fig. 26).