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[quote]"May governors and nobles love you,
May he who is one league away bite his lip in anticipation of you,
may he who is two leagues away shake out his locks in preparation for you.
May the soldier not refuse you, but undo his buckle for you,
may he give you ivory, lapis lazuli, and gold.
Rings and broaches will be gifts for you,
Rain shall pour down for him, his storage jars shall be heaped full.
The diviner shall lead you into the palace of the gods.
Because of you, the mother of seven, the honored wife, shall be divorced."

- Enkidu's blessing to the divine sex worker Shamhat after he was rebuked by Shamash, The Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet VII. Translation by me, taken from Kovacks' The Epic of Gilgamesh (1989) and Daily's Myths From Mesopotamia (2000)[/quote]