Note 25 — THE DESCENT INTO HADES.
Reading edition
The same gestures of grief are recorded in Jeremiah xxxi. 19 for the Hebrews, in Odyssey XXXI, 198 for the Greeks. In a similar way, we read of Ea in another document, “when he heard this he bit his lip” (cf. A. S. K. T., LXXXVI, 24).