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Mesopotamian

Shamash

the sun, judge of heaven and earth

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Shamash rises each dawn from the eastern mountains to walk the sky and see all deeds by his light, giver of law and unblinking justice; to dream of him is to stand in a light that hides nothing and find, at last, that you are not afraid.

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Nothing escapes him, not the coin passed in shadow nor the vow broken in a locked room, and to him the weary traveller and the wronged widow cry out for a fair weighing.

At dusk he passes through the eastern gate into the land of the dead, lighting even that grey country as he goes, so that no darkness is ever wholly without a sun.

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