CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Teshub, Abzu, Ullikummi
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Muses: nine daughters of memory( mnemosyne) and zeus (53-61) They"re daughter of memory, help humans to forget Anthropomorphic: looks like a human being, human in shape. The ancient near east in the second millennium b. c. Time line: 1600 hittite/hurrian myths, 1200 babylonian myths, 800 greek myths. Succession myth younger generation opposes & overcomes previous one, until present world order comes into being. Zeus thunderbolt against typhoeous (monstrous, dragon) created by gaia. Woven, built his house, tablets of destiny, fashioned clever things, built temple, calendar. Marduk use blood of kingdu to create mankind after destroying kingdu. Anshar & kishar (heaven & earth); anu (sky); ea(water) Marduk is the youngest son of ea (most recent decendent of apsu) You can kill gods but in theogony you can only put gods underneath. At rst, just like gaia, stays at the side of the children, help ea destroy apsu. Tiamats begets army of monsters, try to destroy marduk (son of ea)
