If these high authorities are right, I at last see my way clear! Haman, or the victim of the Sac?a, is now neither the representative of the King of Babylon, nor of Tammuz, nor of both at once, nor of Marduk, nor of Eabani, nor of Gilgamesh. He is now (if N?ldeke or Jensen is right) the representative of a conquered and hostile god, Humman of the E