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

the former in the Enūma Eliš. Anshar's role in the conventional genealogy of Anu resulted in his incorporation into the Enūma Eliš. The text does not...

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...

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...

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

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

(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...

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

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...

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...

known from cuneiform literature such as the Babylonian creation myth Enūma Eliš and the Bible: in particular, the Genesis creation narrative as well as...

Assyrian expository text (KAR 307), presumably dependent on Babylonian Enūma Eliš, in a paragraph discussing Tiamat states that she can be understood as...

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came to be seen as a name of Marduk and is mentioned in this role in the Enūma Eliš. The meaning of the term bilulu is not known, but it appears in two other...

defective manuscript that was missing those sections. Most of Tablet V of the Enūma Eliš, the Babylonian creation myth, has never been recovered. The didactic...

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...

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....

F. A. M. Wiggermann (1992). Mesopotamian Protective Spirits: The Ritual Texts. Styx Publications. p. 169. ISBN 9789072371522. The enūma eliš at eTACT...

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...

of Nanshe. However, it most likely depends on traditions pertaining to Enūma Eliš and does not represent a separate independent tradition. As of 2017, no...

used with respect to the destruction of the chaos dragon Tiamat in the Enūma Eliš, although it has been observed that the primeval state is one of a peaceful...

dates back to the 18th century BC and is titled after its incipit, Shūtur eli sharrī ("Surpassing All Other Kings"). Only a few tablets of it have survived...

sea-goddess, Tiamat, battling for supreme power over the other gods, in the Enūma Eliš. It has been speculated these two characters in the Babylonian myth are...

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...

first recounts Babylonian geography and a variant of the cosmogony of the Enūma Eliš, as well as the transition of the existence of man prior to the divine...

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

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...

representing the weather and the sea. Historically the conflict with Tiamat in Enūma Eliš was seen as a close parallel, though in more recent scholarship differences...