The Seven Tablets of Creation, by Leonard William King, [1902]
| | PAGE |
| PREFACE | XI |
| INTRODUCTION:— | XXV |
| I. DESCRIPTION AND LITERATURE OF THE POEM ENUMA ELISH | XXV |
| II. CONTENTS OF THE POEM AND DISCUSSION OF NEW MATERIAL | XXX |
| III. COMPOSITION OF THE POEM | LXVI |
| IV. DATE AND ORIGIN OF THE BABYLONIAN CREATION LEGENDS | LXXII |
| V. INFLUENCE OF THE BABYLONIAN CREATION LEGENDS AND PARALLELS IN HEBREW LITERATURE | LXXX |
| VI. AUTHORITIES FOR THE TEXT OF THE POEM ENUMA ELISH AND THE ASSYRIAN COMMENTARIES | XCVII |
| VII. RECONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE TEXT | CXX |
| TRANSLITERATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS:— | |
| I. THE SEVEN TABLETS OF THE HISTORY OF CREATION. | |
| I. THE FIRST TABLET | 2 |
| II. THE SECOND TABLET | 22 |
| III. THE THIRD TABLET | 38 |
| IV. THE FOURTH TABLET | 58 |
| V. THE FIFTH TABLET | 78 |
| VI. THE SIXTH TABLET | 86 |
| VII. THE SEVENTH TABLET | 92 |
| EPILOGUE | 110 |
| II. OTHER ACCOUNTS OF THE HISTORY OF CREATION. | |
| I. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE DRAGON-MYTH | 116 |
| II. A REFERENCE TO THE CREATION OF THE CATTLE AND THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD | 122 |
| III. A REFERENCE TO THE CREATION OF THE MOON AND THE SUN | 124 |
| IV. AN ADDRESS TO THE RIVER OF CREATION | 128 |
| V. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE CREATION OF THE WORLD BY MARDUK | 130 |
| VI. THE "CUTHAEAN LEGEND OF THE CREATION" | 140 |
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| APPENDICES:— | |
| I. ASSYRIAN COMMENTARIES AND PARALLEL TEXTS TO THE SEVENTH TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES | 157 |
| II. ON SOME FRAGMENTS OF THE SERIES ENUMA ELISH, AND ON SOME TEXTS RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF CREATION | 182 |
| III. ON SOME TRACES OF THE HISTORY OF CREATION IN RELIGIOUS AND ASTROLOGICAL LITERATURE | 204 |
| IV. SUPPOSED ASSYRIAN LEGENDS OF THE TEMPTATION AND THE TOWER OF BABEL | 219 |
| V. A "PRAYER OF THE RAISING OF THE HAND" TO ISHTAR | 222 |
| INDICES, GLOSSARY, ETC.:— | |
| I. INDEX TO TEXTS. | |
| A. CUNEIFORM TEXTS FROM BABYLONIAN TABLETS, ETC., IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, PART XIII (1901), PLATES 1-41 | 239 |
| B. SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS, PUBLISHED IN VOL. II, PLATES, I-LXXXIV | 241 |
| C. SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS, PUBLISHED IN APPENDICES I, II, AND III. | 244 |
| II. INDEX TO REGISTRATION NUMBERS | 245 |
| III. GLOSSARY OF SELECTED WORDS | 251 |
| IV. INDEX TO NAMES OF DEITIES, STARS, PLACES, ETC. | 266 |
| PLATES:— | |
| I. THE SIXTH TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES | VIII |
| II. THE FIRST TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES | XXXV |
| III. THE SECOND TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES | XLIII |
| IV. THE FOURTH TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES | XLVII |
| V. THE FIFTH TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES | LI |
| VI. THE SEVENTH TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES | LXI |