The natural process of sedimentation assisted the gradual artificial drainage of the marshes by means of embankments confining the river.
But by a natural process the mischief was gradually and partially remedied.
It may be supposed that these crude fancies embody a dim recognition of the physical forces and objects personified under the forms of deities, and a rude attempt to account for their genesis as a natural process.
Careful attempts, based on new scientific truths, an made to explain the genesis of the world as a natural process.
There can be no doubt that Eabani, who symbolizes primeval man, was a figure originally entirely independent of Gilgamesh, but his story was incorporated into the epic by that natural process to be observed in the national epics of other peoples, which tends to connect the favourite hero with all kinds of tales that for one reason or the other become embedded in the popular mind.
