CLT-3378 Lecture Notes - Abzu, Enki, Kishar
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[2/13/13] (babylonian epic of creation, epic of gilgamish, etc. ) Mesopotamia is culturally mixed with sumarian & acadian (written in. Tiamat: has her children and they"re in her (the water); apsu wants to kill the kids for being too noisy. Apsu & mumu plan to kill their kids (tiamat"s kids) father of creation killing his kids. Ea: holds him down, casts a sleeping spell and kills (apsu) him in his sleep. Makes his home in the fresh water and tiamat and other gods live in salt water. Family line keeps getting better than previous. Marduk: storm association god; shoots tiamat and kills her (blows her up like a balloon with wind) then, he uses her to make the world after dismemberment. World without people; origin of humanity come from the blood that they make qingu bleed made by ea. Humans exist to toil and do all the work in the world (our purpose of creation)
