CHAPTER V. Mutilated condition of tablets.—List of subjects.—Description of chaos.—Tiamat.—Generation of gods.—Damascius.—Comparison with Genesis.—Three great gods.—Doubtful fragments.—Fifth tablet.—Stars.—Planets.—Moon.—Sun.—Abyss or chaos.—Creation of moon,—Creation of animals.—Man.—His duties.—Dragon of sea.—Fall.—Curse for disobedience.—Discussion.—Sacred tree.—Dragon or serpent.—War with Tiamat.—Weapons.—Merodach.—Destruction of Tiamat.—Mutilation of documents.—Parallel Biblical account.—Age of story. I HAVE related in the first chapter the history of the discovery of […]
Babylonian Legends of the Creation
Literary life of Deity, Transcendence and the Omega of Gender*
Fig 1: Egyptian stele Beth Shean (1300 BC) Holy Land Cosy Cosmologies: God in the Quantum Vacuum Beyond Science The Battle of Light and Dark: Combat Myth and Armageddon Is God all in the Mind and Brain? The Poetic life of Yahweh. The monotheist view is that God is revealed in history. That from some […]
The Babylonian Legends of the Creation – British Museum pdf
“The publication of the above-mentioned texts and translations proved beyond all doubt the correctness of Rawlinson’s assertion made in 1865, that “certain portions of the Babylonian and Assyrian Legends of the Creation resembled passages in the early chapters of the Book of Genesis.”