:Bore the labour, carried the load,
:The gods' load was great,
:The toil grievous, the trouble excessive.
:The great Anunnaku, the Seven,
:Were making the Igigu undertake the toil.

The Igigi then rebel against the dictatorship of Enlil, setting fire to their tools and surrounding Enlil's great house by night. On hearing that toil on the irrigation channel is the reason for the disquiet, the Anunnaki council decide to create man to carry out agricultural