THE DEFEAT OF ENUTILA, ENMERSHARRA, AND QINGU
Origin/Historian/Author: Neo Babylonian Sources: Siglum of tablets in the British Museum Full Text Below 1 . . . ] . . [ . ] 2 [Their clamor] got loud, [as …
ANE Epics and Cosmological Lit
Ancient Near Eastern Mythological Epics and Cosmological Literature (ca 2400 BCE – ca 500 BCE)
THE MURDER OF ANSHAR?
Origin/Historian/Author: Neo Babylonian Sources: Siglum of tablets in the British Museum Introduction This heavily fragmented text was recorded sometime during the Neo-Babylonian Period. It consists of a single tablet with …
THE TOIL OF BABYLON
Origin/Historian/Author: Neo Babylonian Sources: – Records of the Past, By W. St. Chad Boscawen, 1876 – The Chaldean Account of Genesis, By George Smith, 1876 Introduction This fragmented text was …
THE DEFEAT OF ENMESHARRA
Origin/Historian/Author: Neo Babylonian Source: Babylonian Creation Myths, WG Lambert, 2013 Introduction This myth was recorded during the Neo-Babylonian Period, while traces of the events described can be viewed in earlier …
THE EPIC OF PARADISE
Origin/Historian/Author: Sumer, Late Dynastic Period Source: Sumerian Liturgical Texts, Stephen Langdon, 1917 Introduction This old Sumerian text was first recorded sometime during the Late Dynastic Period. It is one of …
GILGAMESH AND THE WILLOW TREE
Origin/Historian/Author: Sumerian, ca 2100 BCE. Source: Sumerian Religious Texts, Edward Chiera, 1924 Full Text Below After heaven had moved away from earth After earth had separated from heaven And the …
DEBATE BETWEEN CATTLE AND GRAIN
Origin/Historian/Author: Sumer, Temple Library of Nippur, ca 2400 BCE. Source: Sumerian Religious Texts, Edward Chiera, 1924 Introduction This old Sumerian text was one of the many excavated tablets found in …
THE MARRIAGE OF MARTU / AN AMORITE CREATION STORY IN SUMERIAN
Origin/Historian/Author: Sumer, Temple Library at Nippur, ca 2100 BCE. Source: Sumerian Religious Texts, Edward Chiera, 1924 Introduction This Sumerian myth was excavated from the Temple Library at Nippur. It features …
THE CUTHÆAN LEGEND OF THE CREATION
Origin/Historian/Author: Sumerian, ca 2300 BCE Source: Records of the Past, 2nd Series, Vol. IV (1890) Introduction by Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce Besides the story of the Creation in a series …
DESCENT OF THE GODDESS ISHTAR INTO THE LOWER WORLD
Origin/Historian/Author: Neo-Sumerian – Old Babylonian Source: The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria, M. Jastrow Introduction The Descent of Ishtar myth was recorded throughout the Neo-Sumerian to the old Babylonian Periods. …
NERGAL AND ERESHKIGAL
Origin/Historian/Author: Babylonian Source: Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, Robert William Rogers Introduction This myth comes down to us on two fragments found at Tell-el-Amarna, in 1887. It was originally …
THE MYTH OF ADAPA
Origin/Historian/Author: Babylonian Source: Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, Robert William Rogers Introduction This myth is preserved upon four fragments, three of which once belonged to the library of the …
THE SEVEN EVIL SPIRITS (OR DEMONS)
Origin/Historian/Author: Old Babylonian – Late Sumerian Source: Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, Robert William Rogers Introduction Here we have a two-part Late Sumerian to Early Babylonian Period text (ca …
ELLIL AND THE LABBU
Origin/Historian/Author: Babylonian Source: Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, Robert William Rogers Introduction This Babylonian Period text was published by Delitzsch and translated by LW King. There was another early …
AN ASSYRIAN BUILDING INSCRIPTION WITH COSMOLOGICAL MATERIAL
Origin/Historian/Author: Assyrian, ca 700 BCE Source: Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, Robert William Rogers Introduction This Assyrian text was inscribed on a building discovered by the Deutsche Orientgesellschaft. It …
THE ASSYRIAN COSMOLOGY #2
Origin/Historian/Author: Assyrian, ca 700 BCE Source: Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, Robert William Rogers Introduction This text, which dates back to the reign of Sennacherib in the 8th century …
THE ASSYRIAN COSMOLOGY #1
Origin/Historian/Author: Middle Assyrian Period Source: Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, Robert William Rogers Introduction The cosmology of the Assyrians is rooted in the cosmology of the Babylonians, and developed …
A BABYLONIAN COSMOLOGY IN A RITUAL
Origin/Historian/Author: Babylonian Source: Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, Robert William Rogers Introduction This fragmentary ritual found at Babylon was first published bv F. H. Weissbach, Babylonische MiszeUen 1903, Tafel …
THE FOUNDING OF ERIDU – A LATER RETELLING
Origin/Historian/Author: Early Kassite Babylonian (ca 1600 BCE) Source: The Sacred Books and Literature of the East, By Prof. Charles F. Horne, Ph.D. Full Text Below (3) The holy house, the …
THE FOUNDING OF ERIDU
Origin/Historian/Author: Neo Sumerian – Babylonian Source: – Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, T. G. Pinches, 1891 – Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek, P. Jensen, 1900 – The Seven Tablets of Creation, L. …