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Facebook.com forward slash ancient world podcast. Thanks again for listening. I am Azatiwadas, the Sun God's man, servant of Tarunzas, whom Awariku King of Adanaoa made great.

Tarunzas made me mother and father to Adanaoa and I caused Adanaoa to prosper. I extended the

plane of Adanaoa on the one hand toward the west and on the other hand toward the east. And in my days

Adanawa had all good things, plundiness and luxury. I filled the Pahari and

granaries and I made horse upon horse and I made army upon army and I made shield upon shield, all with the help of Tarhunsas and the gods.

It is left to me to tell the tale of the evils that plagued Adanaowa, the land that the men of

Asur call Kweh, Of the fall of my own Lord Awariku, and of the men of Hattie, and of Aram, and of the men of Asur as well.

So in sight of Tarhundus and the gods sit with me upon the ground as I tell

sad stories of the death of kings. How some have been deposed, some slain in war, some haunted by the Itymu of those

they have deposed, some taking poison, all murdered. I begin in the seventh year of Sargon, great king, strong king

of the world, king of Assyria, king of the Four Corners of the Earth.

In the days of my Lord Awariku of Quay, the King of Assyria was our father and mother,

and Kway and Oss Asur made one house and my lord was ever faithful to King Sargon.

Adana and Kahlhu are far apart, but the men of Asu were always close, and they rendered help

to us in time of need.

In that year, two evils came to our land. The first was Midas, king of the land Frigia, whose armies

were vast and I was hungry and who took from us our fortresses of Haruwa, Ushnanis, and Kumasi.

At the same time our coast was plagued by savage Ionian whose abode is situated in the middle of the sea,

and who, from the distant past, have killed the people of the land of Quay.

King Sargon heard the pleas of my Lord Awariku, and he himself went down to the sea in ships

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