RELIGST 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar I, Zimri-Lim
16 Feb 2016
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Lecture #3: sea monsters, pride, and other chaos monsters. Particularly primordial chaos waters: connected w/ tehom or ancient. Chaos mother: tiamat - she gives birth to creation. Chaos has to destroy in order to create life. Life moves through stages of order and chaos and order, etc. Chaos is not just the end of the world, but the beginning (eschatology: end of. In some senses, chaos is a creator, it acts as creator or acts in conjunction w/another creator (divinity - god), and becomes associated w/other creators. Assumption - if there"s going to be life, there is going to be chaos. Marduk kills her - turns half her body into a dome for the sky and a flat piece for the earth, and water underneath o o o o. Her chaotic waters are organized into rivers and streams and out of her body it nourishes the earth.
