The Enuma Elish

Babylonian scripture · c. 1200 BCE · Scripture · Mesopotamian · Ancient

Seven tablets recited at the Babylonian new year tell how the first gods are born from the mingling of fresh and salt water, and how their noise drives the older powers to plot against them. Marduk agrees to fight the sea-mother Tiamat on condition that he be made king of the gods, and from her divided body he builds the sky and the earth. Cosmos built on the corpse of chaos.

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• prefigures ↓ Genesis
  Anonymous · c. 550 BCE · Scripture
• ↓ Theogony
  Hesiod · c. 700 BCE · Poem — shares sources with this

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