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Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East

the Babylonian Legends of Creation: The Object of the Bab...

Babylonian Creation MythCuneiform TabletsE.A. Wallis BudgeEnuma Elish

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A perusal of the texts of the Seven Tablets of Creation, which King was enabled, through the information contained in them, to arrange for the first time in their proper sequence, shows that the main object of the Legend was the glorification of the god Marduk, the son of Ea (Enki), as the conqueror of the dragon Tiâmat, and not the narration of the story of the creation of the heavens, and earth and man. The Creation properly speaking, is only mentioned as an exploit of Marduk in the Sixth…

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