Text Corpus

Eat the Fruit’s virtual Library is a vast collection of ancient texts and scripture from around the world. We have compiled many of the available records listed as public domain, regarding the origins of man, our ancient history, as well as theologically based texts for you to explore. It is our hope that you utilize the materials to master your own understanding of our rich history.

ANE Epics + Cosmological Texts

• The Babylonian Enuma Elish
• The Ashur Enuma Elish 
• The Assyrian Cosmology #1
• The Assyrian Cosmology #2
• A Babylonian Cosmology in a Ritual
• A Cosmological Inscription on Assyrian an Building
• The Defeat of Enmesharra
• The Defeat of Enutila, Enmersharra, and Qingu
• The Cuthæan Legend of Creation
• The Murder of Anshar
• A Bilingual Account of Creation
• The Founding of Eridu
• The Founding of Eridu – A Kassite Retelling
• The Organization of the Anunnaki Pantheon #1
• The Organization of the Anunnaki Pantheon #2 
• The Epic of Paradise
• The Myth of Adapa
• Debate Between Cattle and Grain
• Enki and Ninmah
• A Myth of Enlil and Ninlil
• The Seven Evil Spirits (or Demons)
• The Toil of Babylon
• The Eridu Genesis
• The Marriage of Martu
• Ellil and the Labbu
• Gilgamesh and The Willow Tree
• Nergal and Ereshkigal
• Descent of the Goddess Ishtar Into the Lower World

ANE Hymns and Prayers

• The River of Creation 
• A Prayer to Bel
• Liturgy to Enlil #1
• Liturgy to Enlil #2
• The Trumpet of Enlil
• A Psalm to Enlil
• The Ergot
• An Incantation in Sickness to Marduk
• Processional Hymn to Marduk
• A Prayer to Marduk
• Urash and Marduk
• Invocation to the Goddess Beltis
• Lamentation to Aruru
• A Prayer to Damkina and Ba’u
• A Prayer of Ba’u and Shamash
• Lamentation to Innini on the Sorrows of Uruk
• Liturgical Hymn to Innini
• Liturgy to Innini
• Prayer of the Raising of the Hand to Ishtar
• An Incantation to Ishtar
• Hymn to Ishtar
• Prayer to Ishtar
• Organization of the Heavens
• The Seven Names of Ishtar
• Psalm to the God Amurru
• Hymn to Ramman, The Weather God
• A Prayer to Nergal
• A Prayer to Ninib
• A King’s Prayer to the Moon God
• Hymn to Sin, The Moon God
• Liturgical Hymn to Sin
• The Seven Names of Lamashtu
• Hymn of the Tammuz Cult
• Prayer to Tasmitu
• Prayer to Nabu in Sickness
• The Oldest Religious Text from Babylonia? 
• To the Star Regulus
• Babylonian Cult Symbols

ANE Rulers and Law Lit

• The Inscription of King Ur-Nina (Ur-Nanshe)
• Liturgy of the Cult of Kesh
• The Inscriptions of Entemena on a Diorite Statue
• The Inscriptions of Uru-Kagina
• The Legend of Sargon, King of Akkad
• Omen Tablet of Sargon of Akkad
• Chronicle Concerning Sargon and Other Early Kings
• Lamentation to the Invasion of Sumer by the People of Gutium
• The Inscription of Gudea
• The Dream of Gudea
• The Inscriptions of King Ur-Ba’u (Ur-Baba)
• Liturgical Hymn Concerning Ur-Engur (Ur-Nammu)
• Liturgical Hymn to Dulgi (Shulgi)
• Lamentation on the Pillage of Lagash by the Elamites
• Lamentation Fragment on the Destruction of Ur
• Lamentation on the Destruction of Ur
• Liturgy of the Cult of Ishme-Dagan #1
• Liturgy of the Cult of Ishme-Dagan #2
• Lamentation of Ishme-Dagan Over Nippur
• Liturgy of Ishme-Dagan
• The Inscriptions of Libit-Ishtar on Clay Cones
• Liturgical Hymn to Lilazag
• The Inscriptions of Bur-Sin on Gate Sockets of Ur
• The Inscriptions of Nur-Adad on Clay Cones
• The Inscriptions of Kudur-Mabug on a Clay Cone
• The Inscriptions of Kudur-Mabug on Clay Cones
• The Inscriptions of Warad-Sin on a Clay Cone
• The Inscriptions of Rim-Sin on Steatite Tablet
• The Inscriptions of Rim-Sin on a Clay Cone
• Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
• Hymn of Samsu-Iluna on Statues
• The Cylinder of Cyrus
• The Philosophy of an Unknown Ruler
• The Organization of the Anunnaki Pantheon #1
• The Organization of the Anunnaki Pantheon #2
• Uruk List of Kings and Sages

Classical Era Lit

• Eusebius – on Sanchoniothon’s Creation and the Gods
• Damascius – The Theogonies
• Damascius – The Babylonian Cosmogony
• Cicero – The Vanity of Babylon
• Eusebius – on Berossus – Primitive Revelation and the Early Kings
• Apollodorus – on Berossus
• Abydenus – on The Works of Berossus
• Eusebius – on The Works of Berossus – Sardanapalus
• Eusebius – on The Works of Berossus – Sennacherib and His Successors
• Athenceus – on The Works of Berossus – The Feast of Secea
• Seneca – on The Works of Berossus – The Great Year
• Seneca – on The Works of Berossus – Destruction by Fire
• Nicholaus Damascenus – Abraham
• Eusebius – on The Works of Berossus – Abraham
• Eupolemus – The Tower of Babel and Abraham
• Castor – Belus and Assyrian Empire
• Thallus – Belus and The War of the Titans
• Eupolemus – Belus, aka Cronus
• The Sibylline Oracles – The Tower and the Titanian War
• Alexander Polyhistor – The Tower of Babel
• Hestiæus – The Dispersion
• Eusebius – on The Works of Berossus – The Tower of Babel
• Eusebius – on The Works of Berossus – The Babylonian and Assyrian Kings
• Nicholaus Damascenus – The Ark
• Eusebius – on The Works of Berossus – The Creation and Causes of the Deluge
• Syncellus – on The Works of Berossus – The Creation and Causes of the Deluge

Ancient Egyptian Texts

• The Book of The Dead Part 1 (Theban Recension)
• The Book of The Dead Part 2 (Theban Recension)
• The Book of The Dead Part 3 (Theban Recension)
• The Book of The Dead Part 4 (Theban Recension)

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