Hirakim the great watcher and great protector looked out upon his kingdom  from the Tigris to the Euphrates and found Tiahmet the daughter of the northern Province.

At the feast of the harvest did great Hirakim gather unto him the peoples beneath him
From rulers to slaves and all stations in between to celebrate the marriage Tiahmet to be his everlasting queen and daughter.

Tiahmet danced for the great Hirakim and for his advisors and for his nobles.
Their hearts did beat with vigor as she was the fairest to look upon.
Khorinn was the general of the army and of the cavalry and chariots and archers.
Taragun was the keeper of the treasury and taker of taxes and measurer of tribute.
Slahri Ek Nesh was the first mother to Great Hirakam, before Mara Het the traveler, and great were her years.
Onogal was the veiled advisor to great Hirakim, and Onogal watched the skys in darkness.

When the time was set, the servants brought to the bed garden four oxen and four brightcocks and eleven bound man-servants and twenty and two women servants.
Their throats were cut and their life force was poured out to the great basin of brass, to quench the incense burning there. The basin did measure six cubits in circle and three cubits in depth, inside were one measure of smoldering sandalwood and four measures of smoldering myrhh, and nine measures of smoldering fresh reed, and other smoldering things unknown. All this was done according to the instructions of  Onogal the Unseen.

And great Hirakim took Tiahmet unto is marriage bed and made her with his flesh and blood his queen and child.

And while Tiahmet yet swooned, Hirakim placed her in the basin along with a vessel as was used in the temple but full with his Great Essence even to over flowing. Tiahmet drank. The vessel was found empty the morning of the following day.

That night the great Hirakim called Khorinn, Taragun, and Slahri Ek Nesh to the garden.
But Onogal was not called to the garden but came subtly there.
Tiahmet the great devourer reclined against the Great Hirakim who rested on many pillows of the marriage bed. Then came Khorinn to the marriage bed and lay with the Hungry One and she fed of his essence until he died and suckled him back to life, his many scars cleared from his newborn skin. In this manner likewise came Taragun whose hair came in full and black as in his youth. Slahri Ek Nesh the same as was the great Hirakim's mother came also and was born anew as though a fair virgin. Tiahmet the hungry permitted not Slahri Ek Nesh to lay upon the pillows as Khorinn and Taragun.

All were heavy with sleep when Onogal did silently enter and suckle to the Devourer that she woke but made no noise and only reached inside his hood to touch his face. Onogal did leave that night.
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