C C 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Signify, Kishar, Lightning

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: C C 303
• Professor: Todd Curtis

Document Summary

Politically/orderly handing down of power from the older generation to new. Ea told him to fight an older god, received authority from him and did not act on his own, had to be approved. Ouranos (sky) made the other gods the mingling of the fresh (apsu) and saltwater (tiamat) is the first act of creation: other gods are born within them. Other gods are born from them them. Extent of discussion of creation in the text. Most of the work is the rise of zeus. Creation covers less than two of seven tablets, (most of the work deals with the contest between. Ea kills apsu and builds his home. Pontus, from gaia, is on sweet waters. Ea captures mummu, and after defeating tiamat, he divides the waters: half earth, half sky. After establishing half of tiamat"s body as sky, marduk uses the other half as earth.