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Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East

Sumerian Mythology: Chapter II. Myths of Origins

Ancient MesopotamiaCuneiform WritingSamuel Noah KramerSumerian Mythology

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The most significant myths of a given culture are usually the cosmogonic, or creation myths, the sacred stories evolved and developed in an effort to explain the origin of the universe, the presence of the gods, and the existence of man. And so we shall devote this chapter, by far the longest in our monograph, to the creation theories and concepts current in Sumer in the third millennium B. G.

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