1) Akkadian literature 
The NAM-BÚR-BI incantations (Akkadian: namburbȗ) were named for a series of prophylactic Babylonian and Assyrian rituals to avert inauspicious portents before they took on tangible form. At the core of these rituals was an appeal by the subject of the sinister omen to the divine judicial court to obtain a change to his impending fate. From the c...