Mesopotamian Text
The Mesopotamian texts contained in this section span across multiple empires and eras of the ancient near east. From Sumer to Agade, and Babylon to Assyria, these texts were written between 4000BCE - 500CE
Sumerian Creation Myths
- Enlil's creation story
Sumerian Confliction Myths
Sumerian Hymns
Akkadian Confliction Myths
Babylonian Creation Myths
- The Babylonian Cosmogony According to Damascius
- A Babylonian Cosmogony Ritual
- Another Version of the Creation of the World by Marduk
- The Enuma Elish Tablet I
- The Enuma Elish Tablet II
- The Enuma Elish Tablet III
- The Enuma Elish Tablet IV
- The Enuma Elish Tablet V
- The Enuma Elish Tablet VI + VII
Babylonian Confliction Myths
Babylonian Hymns
Assyrian Creation Myths
- The Assyrian Cosmology
- Ashur the Creator
- An Assyrian Building Inscription
- The Cuthaean Legend of Creation (Tr. by AH Sayce)
- The Legend of Creation from the Cutha Tablet (Tr. by G. Smith)
Assyrian Hymns
- The Inscription of Tiglath-Pileser I
- The Annals of Assur-Natsir-Pal
- The Inscription of the Black Obelisk