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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Anshar (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
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...
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Mummu (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
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...
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Tablet of Destinies (mythic item) (category Enūma Eliš)
Karen (2012). "The Tablet of Destinies and the Transmission of Power in Enūma eliš". Organization, Representation, and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near...
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savage the water goddess Tiamat in the Mesopotamian story of creation Enūma Eliš. Mesopotamian prayer Ancient Mesopotamian religion Atra-Hasis Ninlil Oshima...
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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...
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Mesopotamian mythology (section Enuma Elish)
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...
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Tiamat (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
Karen (2012). "The Tablet of Destinies and the Transmission of Power in Enūma eliš". Organization, Representation, and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near...
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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...
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Abzu (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
(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...
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Anunnaki (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
the Anunnaki mourn over the destruction of humanity. In the Babylonian Enûma Eliš, Marduk assigns the Anunnaki their positions. A late Babylonian version...
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Marduk (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
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...
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Anu (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
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...
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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...
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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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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...
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Asia portal Mythology portal Atra-Hasis Creation myth Deluge (mythology) Enūma Eliš Epic of Gilgamesh Gilgamesh flood myth Mesopotamian mythology Song of...
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known from cuneiform literature such as the Babylonian creation myth Enūma Eliš and the Bible: in particular, the Genesis creation narrative as well as...
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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...
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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...
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Damgalnuna (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
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....
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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...
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Nibiru (Babylonian astronomy) (category Enūma Eliš)
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]...
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used with respect to the destruction of the chaos dragon Tiamat in the Enūma Eliš, although it has been observed[by whom?] that the primeval state is one...
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Enki (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
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...
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Mušmaḫḫū (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
Ninğirsu slaying the seven-headed mušmaḫḫū. In the Epic of Creation, Enûma Eliš, Tiāmat gives birth (alādu) to mythical serpents, described as mušmaḫḫū...
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Ninhursag (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
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...
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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...
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second piece onwards were taken either from an English translation of the Enūma Eliš, or were named after marine creatures featured in levels where the tracks...
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Kakka (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
version of the myth Nergal and Ereshkigal, and as a messenger of Anshar in Enūma Eliš. A deity named dga-ga is already attested in the Early Dynastic god list...
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