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      "title": "The Song of the Hoe — Enlil sunders heaven and earth; the hoe and the sprouting of humankind"
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    "en": "The Song of the Hoe",
    "de": "Das Lied von der Hacke",
    "es": "El Canto del Azadón",
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    "ja": "鍬の歌",
    "ko": "괭이의 노래",
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    "ja": "ホイール・オブ・ヘブン訳",
    "ko": "휠 오브 헤븐 번역",
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  "sourceCitation": "Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/), Oxford 1998-2006. Source text c.5.5.4 ('The song of the hoe') used as transliteration base; English translation and all WoH content original to this project.",
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    "en": "The Sumerian hymn to the hoe: Enlil sunders heaven from earth, sets the pickaxe to the soil at Uzu-e-a, and humankind breaks through the ground to bear the gods' labor"
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