Description: Seven Tablets of Creation : Enuma Elish Complete, Paperback by King, Leonard William, ISBN 145158654X, ISBN-13 9781451586541, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The Enûma Eliš is the Babylonian creation myth recovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 (in fragmentary form) in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), and published by George Smith in Enûma Eliš has about a thousand lines and is recorded in Old Babylonian on seven clay tablets, each holding between 115 and 170 lines of text. When the 7 tablets that contain this myth were first discovered, evidence indicated that it was used as a "ritual" myth, meaning it was recited during a ceremony or celebration. That celebration is now known to be the Akitu festival, or Babylonian new year. This myth tells of the creation of the world, and of Marduk's triumph over Tiamat, and how it relates to him becoming king of the gods. In Enuma Elish, the gods consult before creating man (6:4), while Genesis has: "Let us make man in our own image..." (Genesis 1:26) - and in both, the creation of man is followed by divine epic is one of the most important sources for understanding the Babylonian worldview, centered on the supremacy of Marduk and the creation of humankind for the service of the gods.
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Book Title: Seven Tablets of Creation : Enuma Elish Complete
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Topic: History
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.3 in
Genre: Religion
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Author: Leonard William King
Item Length: 10 in
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
