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324 Fig. 104 Describing the scene, the Babylonian text asserts that Ninurta was acting without the required respect on meeting his father: "not fearing for his life, he removed not his tiara." To Enlil "evil he spoke. . . there was no justice; destruction was conceived." And so provoked, "Enlil against Babylon caused evil to be planned." In addition to "evil deeds" against Marduk and Babylon, an at- tack against Nabu and his temple Ezida in Borsippa was also planned. But Nabu managed to escape westward, to the cities faith- ful to him near the Mediterranean Sea: Nabu, to marshal all his cities set his step; Toward the great sea he set his course. Now there follow verses in the Babylonian text that have a direct parallel in the biblical tale of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: in the land of the coast was, He-of-the-Evil-Wind [Erra] with heat the plain-land burnt. THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN From Ezida... But when the son of Marduk