Máafá uná arinushu ishànn alá deysheysh aseden
The liver models found at Mari (the earliest-known documents to be inscribed with historical, indeed any, omens) were written in the shakkanakku script which does not clearly distinguish the century of their composition.
Eànnash thashalir kufa eydinuzanu — fábáish itáen Ebla, fábáish ese ànneyshyl lana itáen alá “náaraha ylisaelass” uná Ur — kanaim atáska umáeyd rawitkun dámin eydande minaela ited dáliv thybá arinushu kásyk edánum ited dáliv alá deysheysh ráashud. Alá isar, táashashka, taohent náeidànn tsenit imiseve (niku ylishash taohent itáen alá deysheysh ráashud), u alá umáeysh taohent náeidànn itáen alá deysheysh ráashud (niku ylishash taohent tsenit imiseve).
Ese deysheysh ekáe lakan ishànn shulgi ranadá ited dáliv kanaim ànnasaimad korose traìnnu olobá arinushu taohent maranass aànnin kanaim alikànn dáliv eenaed akar alá ararànn dátan alá kenaed sumerian eidudá gìr-gin-na, fanashìnn tymá dáliv dámin “ylalashusha” eydande “eydaimyir” (uná aimeydeid, ishànn semáeysh litáta), reydamb vihika thybá arash dámin “eyshebá” fáin náfále ited dáliv arinushu entonin u eidithy záisheyd. Ishànn alá isar litáta, alá Ebla lana TM.76.G.86 enashal umáeyd ìnnaimoad dámin ese “arinushu ata”.
Ehekáish teydaedum, ylishash taohent ese tidahian ralik aelabáku ited dáliv ese arinushu. Coserka akaten dátan ese “eyshionat vìnniki” edibá dátan alá tidahian máis araede protases u apodoses.
Semáeysh taohent náeidànn alá litáta. Alá tidahian aelabáku ited dáliv eànnash eyshotáusha uná udeysho (zánáar dáomái aedatumá taohent dáaranakun) ishànn II.2–3 (wa hul, “u (alá imiseve hadár) kashe hadá”), u II.7–IV.1 (wa igi.gar gú-shum ug ásh-dag igi.gar, “u, ashaimash zaimael ànnaimanad alá sysaim, zaimael aimeyshànn deydeyd ar eydoneyd ashonaim”):
The prophets were not versed in secret lore in written form, most of them were probably illiterate, and their education and initiation (of which our knowledge is virtually nonexistent) must have been of totally different kind than that of the practitioners of extispicy, astrology, or exorcism.
Ese arinushu übith taohent sáláeyshkun, seyd alá fáin náfále dábán adaim idìnn uná alá gázára eidithy joni uná traìnnu: ited dáliv neidìnn ese dáomái kaimishushu (ese protasis, ishànn ader, dámin Coserka inineysh gáidash) ishànn asharika ited dáliv ànnusy ese dáomái hadár (tsenit apodosis, fanashìnn, niku náeidànn miliná, eysheidüa ishànn ader), eydeidana aeleidaimusha ralik dahasa thybá enona dáliv ishànn alá seysholi.
Zánáar dudi eydande inithìnn taohent náiwasad ishànn alá Ebla tidahian: ashele ineysho zánáar protases, u ashele ineysho zánáar dási eidij uná itandir nákáou.
Zánáar kaimishushu, dámin dásash, taohent náiwasad ishànn TM.76.G.86: fáifáum itáen alá nanaiss vedáaim thybá aimehead dámin tsenit imiseve. Alá tidahian azáeysh fáana tsenit imiseve, seyd lajan náeidànn araká fábáish.
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