Enūma Eliš (Akkadian Cuneiform: 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), meaning "When on High", is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening...

deities such as Enmesharra or Qingu. Mummu is best known from the epic poem Enūma Eliš, where he is portrayed as a servant of Apsu (uncommonly treated as a personified...

lists, such as An = Anum, and in literary compositions, including the Enūma Eliš. Anshar's name was written in cuneiform as AN.ŠÁR. It can be translated...

He was a prominent figure in Babylonian cosmology, especially in the Enūma Eliš creation myth. The name of Marduk was solely spelled as dAMAR.UTU in the...

lapis-lazuli measuring rod and measuring line in her hand." In tablet IV of the Enuma Elish, the rod and ring symbol is referenced as: "They rejoiced, and they...

Abzû (Apsu), the groundwater, to produce the gods in the Babylonian epic Enûma Elish, which translates as "when on high." She is referred to as a woman...

describe the ordering of the cosmos from a state of chaos or amorphousness. Enûma Eliš (Babylonian creation myth) Eridu Genesis Greek cosmogonical myth Jamshid...

Anshar or Alala. A variant of one such family tree formed the basis of the Enūma Eliš. Anu briefly appears in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, in which his daughter...

the Anunnaki mourn over the destruction of humanity. In the Babylonian Enûma Eliš, Marduk assigns the Anunnaki their positions. A late Babylonian version...

Karen (2012). "The Tablet of Destinies and the Transmission of Power in Enūma eliš". Organization, Representation, and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near...

found in the library of Ashurbanipal, in modern-day north Iraq. Enuma Elis (also spelled Enuma Elish) is a Babylonian creation myth with an unclear composition...

variant of Uanna), is said to have taught humans the creation myth, the Enūma Eliš. The term apkallu has multiple uses, but usually refers to some form of...

Marduk, replaced Enlil as the head of the mythological pantheon. The Enûma Eliš, a creation myth epic was an original Babylonian work. In it, Apsu and...

(apsû) is depicted as a deity only in the Babylonian creation epic, the Enūma Eliš, taken from the library of Assurbanipal (c. 630 BCE) but which is about...

savage the water goddess Tiamat in the Mesopotamian story of creation Enūma Eliš. Mesopotamian prayer Ancient Mesopotamian religion Atra-Hasis Ninlil Oshima...

or groundwater located within the earth. In the later Babylonian epic Enûma Eliš, Abzu, the "begetter of the gods", is inert and sleepy but finds his peace...

Ninğirsu slaying the seven-headed mušmaḫḫū. In the Epic of Creation, Enûma Eliš, Tiāmat gives birth (alādu) to mythical serpents, described as mušmaḫḫū...

first human beings, while Tiamat's body created the earth and the skies. Enûma Elish Geshtu-E Pangu Purusha Ymir Leeming 2005, p. 229 Leeming, David Adams...

Enuma Elish has also left traces on Genesis 2. Both begin with a series of statements of what did not exist at the moment when creation began; Enuma Elish...

the 29th year of Darius I. As one of the eleven spawn of Tiamat in the Enûma Eliš vanquished by Marduk, he was displayed as a trophy on doorways to ward...

several Akkadian language myths from ancient Mesopotamia, including the epic Enûma Elish and the Standard Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh. In the...

of the creation epic Enûma Eliš: “When Marduk fixed the locations (manzazu) of Nibiru, Enlil and Ea in the sky". The Enûma Eliš states: Nibiru is [Marduk's]...

renamed Ninhursag after the mound. Damkina is the mother of Marduk in Enūma Eliš. Theories posit that, in earlier times, Ninhursag was the highest ranking...

vanquish it. It was one of the eleven monsters created by Tiamat in the Enuma Elish creation myth. It had "six mouths, seven tongues and seven ...-s on...

the Hurrian pantheon. She appears in a number of myths, including the Enūma Eliš, though only a single composition, Damkina's Bond, is focused on her....

younger gods, on the reverse of the first tablet of the Epic of Creation, Enûma Eliš. The tale describes how Marduk captured and bound the creatures, rehabilitating...

one of the eleven monstrous spawn of Tiāmat in the Epic of Creation, Enûma Eliš. He is one of the demons listed in tablet VIII of the Šurpu incantation...

Philippe (2001). "Enūma Eliš and the Transmission of Babylonian Cosmology to the West". Melammu. 2: 265–278. Tamtik, Svetlana (2007). "Enuma Elish: The Origins...

in the Epic of Creation, Enûma Eliš. Its form is unknown but was probably a composite beast like its companions. The Enûma Eliš relates that the Umū dabrūtu...

to avoid the implication of incest, which was socially taboo." In the Enūma Eliš, compiled at a later date and relying on the tradition mentioned above...