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THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE
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The twelve winds,Easterly and Westerly, Northerly and Southerly,the King who adjusted them, He holds them back,He fettered them with seven curbs.
King who bestowed them according to their posts,around the world with many adjustments,each two winds of them about a separate curb,and one curb for the whole of them.
King who arranged them in habitual harmony,according to their ways, without over-passing their limits;at one time, peaceful was the space,at another time, tempestuous.
Measurements of the Universe
King who didst make clear the measure of the slope[1]from the earth to the firmament,estimating it, clear the amount,along with the thickness of the earth-mass.
He set the course of the seven Stars[2]from the firmament to the earth,Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars,Sol, Venus, the very great moon.

    gléasaim="to harness." It seems to have some such meaning here. The winds were apparently harnessed, curbed, or fettered two and two, the whole being held together in one fetter. In another sense gléas means "harmony."

  1. ↑ Or "track."
  2. ↑ i.e. the Planets.
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