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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Mesopotamian mythology refers to the myths, religious texts, and other literature that comes from the region of ancient Mesopotamia which is a historical region of Western Asia, situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system that occupies the area of present-day Iraq. In particular the societies of Sumer, Akkad, and Assyria, all of which ...
e. In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat (Akkadian: 𒀭𒋾𒊩𒆳 D TI.AMAT or 𒀭𒌓𒌈 D TAM.TUM, Ancient Greek: Θαλάττη, romanized: Thaláttē) [1] is the primordial sea, mating with 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 ...
Jacobsen maintained that Enuma Elish was a reflect of pre-historic politics, and gave it the term of "primitive democracy" implying that the citizens' assembly administered all affairs of the community, and this assembly was authorized to appoint a leader for a definitive mission for a limited time. [26]
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]
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]