The Eden Narrative
If oral tradition corrupts, how are we to understand the Eden Narrative when compared to its earliest counterpart? The Getting of Knowledge occurred in what most know of as The …
The Garden
Aššur, Ashur
Provenance: Mesopotamia (Assyrian) Gender: Male Divine Attributes: War, Wisdom, Justice, Kingship, Agriculture, Creation Name’s Meaning: Blessed or Fortunate, Glorious Titles, Epithets, and other Descriptors: Ashur the Creator, King of the …
Asarluhi, Asalluhi
Provenance: Mesopotamia (Sumerian, Babylonian, Akkadian, Assyrian) Gender: Male Divine Attributes: Magic and Incantations Titles, Epithets, and other Descriptors: Son of Eridu, Son of the Abzu Descended From: Ea, or Lugaldukuga …
An, Anu
Provenance: Mesopotamia/Anatolia (Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Hurrian) Gender: Male Divine Attributes: Heaven, Sky Name’s Meaning: Heaven Titles, Epithets, and other Descriptors: Supreme Lord of the sky, Ancestor of the gods, …
Anšar
Provenance: Mesopotamia (Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian) Gender: Male Divine Attributes: The Heavens Name’s Meaning: Whole heaven or The entirety of heavens Titles, Epithets, and other Descriptors: Chief of the Gods, …
Amasagnudi
Provenance: Mesopotamia (Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian) Gender: Female Divine Attributes: Vizier of Anu Name’s Meaning: Mother who cannot be pushed aside Titles, Epithets, and other Descriptors: Lady of the Gate …
Apsû, Apzû
Provenance: Mesopotamia (Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian) Gender: Male Divine Attributes: Fresh Water Name’s Meaning: Deep Water Titles, Epithets, and other Descriptors: The Primeval, The Primeval Sea Consort/s: Tiamat Progeny: Lahamu and Lahmu …
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD PART 1
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD ACCORDING TO THE THEBAN RECENSION PART 1 [Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge, Litt,D., D.Lit., F.S.A.] A HYMN TO THE SETTING SUN A HYMN OF PRAISE …
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD PART 2
CHAPTER OF KNOWLEDGE [From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 13).] THE CHAPTER OF KNOWING THE “CHAPTERS OF COMING FORTH BY DAY” IN A SINGLE CHAPTER. The …
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD PART 3
OF PROTECTING THE BOAT OF RA [From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 27).] [O thou that cleavest the water as thou comest forth from the stream …
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD PART 4
PAGE 115 over his enemies, provided [ye him] with the offerings of the god of the underworld, make noble the divine being who dwelleth in the nemmes crown, the lord …
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 …
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 …