Marduk's Poem 'The Beginning That Diverts The Heart'

 In cosmogonies there tends to be a specific hierarchical arrangement (25).Through that arrangement women tend to always play the role beneath men. In Theogony for example, men are given the more important powers, and women’s powers focus on birth. Women are also the ones blamed for bringing evil into the world in Theogony. Eros for example, means sexual desire, and Erebos means darkness. These are the daughter of Zeus and they represent bringing darkness and sexual desire into the world. So even though they are important goddesses, they are still given the bad reputation. In the Babylonian creation the image of that hierarchy continues to develop. Marduk, who was inserted into the text, gets the final credit of
This era is unique for focusing on the here and now instead of the afterlife. This may be caused by “relations with other countries” (58). In the poem, “The Beginning of the Song That Diverts the Heart” the girls is calling the guy to trap birds with her in a field, but is really talking about them making love (77). The girl mentions “the first to come takes my bait” (77). Which indicates she isn’t worried about a life time love, but instead is focusing on the here and now, and whoever it is she want during that time.
In, “I Passed Close by his house” a girl longs for a guy, but is restricted to express her love due to still being under parental supervision. She even mentions “if only mother knew my heart” then she could go inside the boy’s house. This is popular in the New Kingdom era, because Egyptian love poems were often written about young lovers.
In the poem “I wish I Were Here Nubian Maid” a boy is longing, and almost obsessing over a women, who is probably of a higher social status than he. This particular poem uses the repetition of “I wish I were” (79). The repetition and the rhythm creates a lyrical flow of the poem. The New Kingdom engenders this type of weighting, because dancing and singing was popular during this