The Babylonian Legends of Creation

Publié par JL, le 03 juillet 2022

Résumé

The Babylonian Legends of Creation is a book originally distributed in 1921 by English Egyptologist, E. A. Wallis Budge. Move composed various deals with old civilisations during his life, as well as aiding fabricate the British Museum's assortment of cuneiform tablets. This book examines the disclosure of the tablets with respect to the creation story (known as the Enuma Elish) of old Babylonia, including the variation structures. It has a depiction of their items as well as an interpretation. The tablets were tracked down during the nineteenth hundred years at Kuyunjik in Iraq and were written in Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform content. The genuine creation story is just referenced in the 6th tablet, most of them recounting the account of Marduk, the child of Enki, and his adventures which included overcoming Tiamat the mythical beast. The legend inside the tablets is dated to the primary Babylonian Dynasty (1894-1595 BCE) and contains a few equals with the tales contained in the Old Testament of the Bible.

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