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222 Fig. 73 and all its corners, even its multitude of raised stones. But inside ... the Great Serpent who had gone in his poison ceased not to spit. Anu himself then intervened. The god hiding inside, he warned her. possessed awesome weapons; "their outburst is terrible; they will prevent you from entering." Instead Anu advised her to seek justice by putting the hiding god on trial. The texts amply identify this god. As in the Ninurta texts, he is called A.ZAG and nicknamed The Great Serpent—a name and a derogatory Enlilite epithet for Marduk. His hiding place is also clearly identified as "the E.KUR, whose walls awesomely reach the skies"—the Great Pyramid. The record of the trial and sentencing of Marduk is available from a fragmentary text published by the Babylonian Section of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. The extant lines begin where the gods had surrounded the pyramid, and a god chosen to be a spokesman addressed Marduk "in his enclosure"; "the one who was evil he implored." Marduk was moved by the message: "Despite the anger of his heart, clear tears came into his eyes"; and he agreed to come out and stand trial. The trial was held within sight of the pyramids, in a temple by the riverbank: THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN She ceased not striking the sides of E-Bih