{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ane_blc_blc07_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ane_blc_blc07_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ane_blc_blc07_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/blc07.htm","summary":"In the beginning nothing whatever existed except APS\u00db, which may be described as a boundless, confused and disordered mass of watery matter; how it came into being is unknown. Out of this mass there were evolved two orders of beings, namely, demons and gods. The demons had hideous forms, even as Berosus said, which were part animal, part bird, part reptile and part human.","tags":["Babylonian Creation Myth","Cuneiform Tablets","E.A. Wallis Budge","Enuma Elish"],"text":null,"title":"the Babylonian Legends of Creation: The Seven Tablets of ...","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East","translated_text":null,"word_count":5775}