Abstract
Summary
This essay examines two variant versions of a šuilla-prayer to the goddess Gula. Based on
internal textual analysis, it is ascertained that Gula 1a is the later and more developed version
of the two. Both versions contain sections in which Gula is asked to reconcile the petitioner
with his angry personal gods. In accordance with the author’s recent work on this theme in
the šuillas, it is argued that these sections in the Gula prayers are secondary, perhaps as part
of a larger revision in a body of šuillas.