{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ane_blc_blc04_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ane_blc_blc04_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ane_blc_blc04_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/ane/blc/blc04.htm","summary":"The views about the Creation which are described in the Seven Tablets mentioned above were not the only ones current in Mesopotamia, and certainly they were not necessarily the most orthodox. Though in the version of the Legend already referred to the great god of creation was Enlil, or Marduk, or Ashur, we know that in the Legend of Gilgamish (Second Tablet) it was the goddess Aruru who created Enkidu (Eabani) from a piece of clay moistened with her own spittle. And in the so-called\u2026","tags":["Babylonian Creation Myth","Cuneiform Tablets","E.A. Wallis Budge","Enuma Elish"],"text":null,"title":"the Babylonian Legends of Creation: Variant Forms of the Babylonian Legend of the Creation","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East","translated_text":null,"word_count":171}