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Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East

the Babylonian Legends of Creation: The Seven Tablets of ...

Babylonian Creation MythCuneiform TabletsE.A. Wallis BudgeEnuma Elish

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In the beginning nothing whatever existed except APSÛ, 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.