NMC380Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ebla, Mardikh, Leviathan
3 Jun 2016
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Most famous text ancient time texts were known by first line no title. Religion is in response to why the natural disasters occur. Fort mcmurray for example big boots god with fire hose victory over the forces of chaos. In essence the fight of omnipotent god against chaos. Early sumerian from later texts- description of chaos monster embodied by sea. Serpent therefore it occurs in a number of texts. It seems idea of the struggle of god against chaos not babylonian rather. World it was in perfect order in the religious capital nippur religious mound of creat with a weapon with marduk worshipped they thought it was actually in the original battle. To elevate marduk to the top of the pantheon before him was enlil. City of babylon 1800 bce king called hammurabi kingdom controlling most of. Mesopotamia normally mesopotamia was fragmented because marduk was the.
