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Enuma Elish

Myth & story

The Babylonian creation combat of Marduk and Tiamat in learned reception. Not Gilgamesh’s flood plot, and not creation as a generic word alone.

Mesopotamian tradition

  • Enuma Elish appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

    The Atlas source Enuma Elish is the Babylonian creation combat of Marduk and Tiamat. A named Mesopotamian cosmogony text in that tradition, not Gilgamesh’s flood plot and not creation as a bare class word alone.

    from Enuma Elish, standard version often dated to the late 2nd millennium BCE

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