In his much-imitated 1922 essay "Memorial Service", H.L. Mencken gives a lengthy list of "dead gods" whose worship has long been abandoned. Though Mencken's basic point is valid, his actual list is full of inaccuracies (as is his characterisation of ancient thought and worship). For example, he lists both Marduk and one of Marduk's epithets, U-
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