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t. e. Enūma Eliš (Akkadian Cuneiform: 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), meaning "When on High", is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words) from the late 2nd millennium BCE and the only complete surviving account of ancient near eastern cosmology. It was recovered by English archaeologist Austen Henry Layard ...
He sacrifices himself to buy enough time for Quetzalcoatl to use her Noble Phantasm, Xiuhcoatl: Piedra Del Sol, which completely destroys Ushiwakamaru and much of the black mud. Tiamat then reveals she has the ability to fly, forcing Quetzalcoatl to sacrifice herself to use another Noble Phantasm, Xiucoatl, stylized as "Ultimo Tope Patada".
At the same time, a dying Kariya begins hallucinating due to his guilt over strangling Aoi. Rider summons Ionian Hetairoi and charges at Archer, but Archer pulls out his sword Ea and uses his Noble Phantasm called Enuma Elish, which causes a massive rip in space-time, destroying Ionian Hetairoi and sending them back into the real world.
In the epic poem Enuma elish, a scorpion-man is listed among the monsters created by Tiamat in order to wage war against the gods for murdering her mate Apsu. In the Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, they stand guard outside the gates of the sun god Shamash at the mountains of Mashu. These give entrance to Kurnugi, the land of darkness ...
The Enuma Elish is in continuity with other texts like the Myth of Anzû, the Labbu Myth, and KAR 6. [146] In both the Enuma Elish and the Myth of Anzu, a dragon (Anzu or Tiamat) steals the Tablet of Destinies from Enlil, the chief god and in response, the chief god looks for someone to slay the dragon.
A fragmentary Assyrian rewrite of Enuma Elish replaced Marduk with Ashur, equated with Anshar, with Lahmu and Lahamu replacing Ea/Enki and Damkina. Wilfred G. Lambert described the result as "completely superficial in that it leaves the plot in chaos by attributing Marduk's part to his great-grandfather, without making any attempt to iron out ...
An Assyrian revision of the Enuma Elish replaced Marduk with Ashur as the main character of the epic. [62] [63] A change observed during the reign of Sargon II, [62] which became more systemic under Sennacherib, [3] was the equation of Ashur with Anshar, by writing the name of the god Ashur as AN.ŠÁR. [c]
Kakka was the sukkal of both Anu (in Nergal and Ereshkigal) [394] and Anshar (in the god list An = Anum and in Enuma Elish). [395] Kakka is not to be confused with a different unrelated deity named Kakka, known from Mari, who was a healing goddess associated with Ninkarrak [395] and Ninshubur. [292] Kanisurra: Uruk, [396] Kish [397]