Anu, opened his mouth and said to great Ishtar: “If I do what you desire, there will be seven years of drought throughout Uruk”. Ishtar opened her mouth and said to Anu: “Father, I have saved grain for the people, grass for the cattle. In case there are seven years of seedless husks. There is grain and there is grass enough.” Anu, the god, sent the Bull of Heaven down on to the earth; with his first snort, cracks opened in the earth and a hundred young men fell down to death. Enkidu doubled over but instantly recovered, he dodged aside and leapt on the bull and seized it by the horns. Gilgamesh followed the bull, seized the thick of its tail, thrust the sword between the nape and the horns and the bull. When they had killed the bull of heaven, they gave it to Shamash as an offering.