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Traditions/Mesopotamian Mythology
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Mesopotamian Mythology

Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian myth: Enuma Elish, Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, gods, flood, and kingship.

MesopotamiaBronze Age3 readable texts4 indexed sources
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Epic of Gilgamesh

Mesopotamian MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

Stephen Langdon's public-domain Gilgamesh edition for flood, underworld, friendship, kingship, and immortality comparison.

Akkadian / Sumerian· Bronze/Iron Age Mesopotamia; public-domain scholarly English edition

The Babylonian Legends of the Creation

Mesopotamian MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

Budge's public-domain English edition of the Babylonian creation tradition, including the Seven Tablets of Creation and older classical summaries connected with Berosus and Damascius.

Akkadian, with Greek classical summaries· c. 18th-7th century BCE source traditions; Budge edition 1921

Enuma Elish

Mesopotamian MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

Babylonian creation epic: primeval waters, divine conflict, Tiamat, Marduk, and cosmic ordering.

Akkadian· 2nd millennium BCE roots; first millennium BCE manuscript witnesses
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Enuma Elish

creation epicBronze/Iron Age MesopotamiaAkkadian
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Babylonian Legends of the Creation

creation epic / source editionBronze/Iron Age Mesopotamian source traditions; represented by a 1921 English editionAkkadian with classical Greek summaries
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Project Gutenberg public-domain E. A. Wallis Budge English edition loaded

Indexed Budge's Seven Tablets of Creation, bilingual creation text, and Berosus/Damascius summaries for creation, chaos waters, Tiamat, Marduk, divine council, cosmic battle, and sacred kingship.

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Epic of Gilgamesh

epicBronze/Iron Age MesopotamiaAkkadian
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public-domain Langdon edition loaded

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Atrahasis

flood epicBronze Age MesopotamiaAkkadian
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public-domain/source-safe translation needed

Questions this area should answer
  • How does the flood pattern predate Genesis?
  • How does divine council language work?
  • What does chaos combat add to creation comparison?