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    Enūma Eliš (Akkadian Cuneiform: 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), meaning "When on High", is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening...
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    Tiamat (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    (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, and...
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    Marduk (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    Sommerfield suggests this is used to explain the name Marduk in the Enuma Elish: as "He is the "son of the sun" of the gods, radiant is he." While the...
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    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...
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    Assyrian version of the Enuma Elish was recited, proclaiming Ashur's superiority. The content of the Assyrian recension of the Enuma Elish remains largely the...
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    totals 360 degrees. Babylonian astrology Babylonian calendar Constellation Enuma Anu Enlil Triple deity Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa History of the Constellations...
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    human beings. The Enuma Elish is in continuity with other texts like the Myth of Anzû, the Labbu Myth, and KAR 6. In both the Enuma Elish and the Myth of...
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    Rod-and-ring symbol (category Enūma Eliš)
    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 did...
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    Kishar (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    In the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, Kishar (Akkadian: 𒆠𒊹, romanized: Kišar) is the daughter of Abzu and Lahmu, the first children of Tiamat and Abzu...
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    Genesis creation narrative (category Enūma Eliš)
    Chapter 2 (New International Version (UK)) "Enuma Elish", at Encyclopedia of the Orient Summary of Enuma Elish with links to full text. ETCSL – Text and...
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    Scorpion man (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    Akkadian language myths from ancient Mesopotamia, including the epic Enûma Elish and the Standard Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh. In the...
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  • Tablet of Destinies (mythic item) (category Enūma Eliš)
    myths including Ninurta and the Turtle, and in Akkadian myths including Enuma Elish. In the Sumerian poem Ninurta and the Turtle it is the god Enki, rather...
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  • song "Keravnos Kivernitos". A music video was also made for the song "Enuma Elish". In 2007, Theogonia won the Metal Storm award for Best Black Metal Album...
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    Kingu (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    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...
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    Lahmu (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    also appears among Tiamat's monsters. A fragmentary Assyrian rewrite of Enuma Elish replaced Marduk with Ashur, equated with Anshar, with Lahmu and Lahamu...
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    1 and Revelation 12. (Grand Rapids: MI: Eerdmans, 1895, 1921, 2006). Enuma Elish, Tablet IV, lines 104–105, 137–138, 144 from Alexander Heidel (1963)...
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  • Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian literature: He uses the Epic of Creation Enuma Elish as the foundation for his cosmogony, identifying the young god Marduk...
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  • the oldest versions of this story is the creation myth of Babylon (the Enûma Elish) from around 1250 B.C. Walter Wink coined the term as part of an analysis...
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    Lahamu (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    of Lahmu. In some god lists she was one of the ancestors of Anu. In Enuma Elish she is the first-born daughter of Tiamat and Abzu. With her brother Lahmu...
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    and earth" and had existed forever; in the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish, pre-existent chaos is made up of fresh-water Apsu and salt-water Tiamat...
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  • Babylonian Anunaki gods. Many scholars believe that the Assyro-Babylonian Enuma Elish influenced the Genesis creation narrative. The Epic of Gilgamesh influenced...
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    of her son in the camps, such as the lost, semi-autobiographical play Enûma Elish. She worked on her official memoirs, planned novels, and worked on her...
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  • prior to creation was the water abyss. In the Babylonian creation story, Enuma Elish, the primordial world is described as a "watery chaos" from which everything...
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    cultures are included as follows: Apsu, in the Babylonian creation epic the Enûma Elish, was killed by his son Ea in the struggle for supremacy among the gods...
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  • the Middle East, citing the Epic of Gilgamesh for the Flood and the Enuma Elish for Creation. The priest and Tolkien scholar Fleming Rutledge writes...
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    Ninhursag as the site at which the Creation occurred. The later Babylonian Enuma Elish, speaks of the creation site as the place where the mixture of salt water...
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    Contrary to what is commonly claimed, the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish does not state that humans are created from clay nor are they created...
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    the context of creation. For example, a Chaoskampf may be found in the Enuma Elish (the only ancient near eastern text to place a cosmic battle in the context...
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    to the exalted status gods of other narratives like Marduk from the Enuma Elish or Yahweh. His kingship is limited, attained by difficult single combat...
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    accounts is the Babylonian Enûma Eliš, or Epic of Creation, which is divided into seven tablets. The surviving version of the Enûma Eliš could not have been...
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