and the fearful strife… when Zeus had conquered him.” This plot is identical to the plot of Mesopotamia’s creation story‚ Enuma Elish. In the Mesopotamian creation story‚ Marduk is the god of the‚ similar to Zeus‚ how battles and defeats his father‚ Tiamat‚ who resembles Cronos. “Marduk‚ Tiamat’s conqueror‚ was glad; the bargain was good; he went on peaking his arrogant words explaining it all to the gods.”(Enuma Elish) They both battle to create order‚ and both overthrow their parents to
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God is the protector of all creation. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast these three literary works to demonstrate the defeat of order over chaos. In the Babylonian Enuma Elish‚ Marduk‚ the Storm God defeats the dragon-like monster Tiamat. In the Ugaritic Baal Cycle‚ the Storm God‚ Baal‚ defeats the serpent Yam. In both versions of the Illuyanka Myth‚ the Storm God defeats Illuyanka to restore order to the land. All three of these myths demonstrate the victory of a Storm God over a
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some symbol. In this case‚ it was Medusa‚ who was brought to Greece from Libya‚ where she was worshipped by the Amazons as Metis‚ a serpent goddess. Cetus was a constellation first seen years before the Greeks by the Mesopotamians‚ who labelled it as some sort of huge sea-creature in the sky that represented the all-encompassing female principle‚ called Tiamat. Along the way‚ the Greeks must have adopted part of their version of the nightly heavens and conveniently used Cetus as the monster that terrorised
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monster and a storm god have a hostile encounter with one another. In Enuma Elish‚ Tiamat‚ the dragon-like creature‚ better known as the sea‚ is up against Marduk‚ the king who we know as the storm god. Likewise‚ in the Baal Cycle‚ Yam‚ who is the sea‚ faces Baal‚ another storm god. Both works show the idea that storm gods represent order‚ while the sea‚ having dragon-like features‚ represents chaos. In Enuma Elish‚ Tiamat loses the battle against Marduk while the same thing happens in the Baal Cycle
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The Role of Women in Creation Stories Men tend to be the dominant figure in many modern societies; this could have something to do with the role women play in creation stories believed by a particular society. In some of the creation stories studied‚ women are portrayed as inferior to men even though they possess great strengths or the ability to manipulate men. The creation stories of Genesis‚ Enuma Elish‚ and The Creation of Pandora from Works and Days all have feminine characters that are portrayed
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12th century BCE‚ with the author unknown. The Enuma Elish is the Babylonian account of how the Earth and the universe were created‚ along with the rest of the inhabitants of Earth over an unknown amount of time‚ through a clash with a big god and a goddess. There is a specific way that the objects of Earth and the universe are created‚ which gives the tablets structure within the stories. To begin‚ both the Book of Genesis and the Enuma Elish are their own “religious historical” telling
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Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 Introduction: About five thousand years ago‚ the people of Sumer cherished the story of Gilgamesh who is the superhero king of Uruk. When Gilgamesh learns of Enkido from a hunter‚ he sends a temple prostitute to tame him whose words and actions signal the principal traits of civilized life in Sumer. The Sumerians‚ like many others‚ equated civilization with their own lifestyles. Mesopotamia‚ Egypt and the Indus Valley civilizations all developed along river floodplains
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ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY I: MESOPOTAMIA AND EGYPT (CLAA05H3F) UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AT SCARBOROUGH COURSE SYLLABUS FALL TERM 2011 TIME: Wednesdays‚ 1:00 – 3:00 pm LOCATION: AA112 The large lecture hall in the AA building INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Douglas R. Frayne Dept. of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations‚ University of Toronto OFFICE: (At Scarborough) HW 404 At. St. George
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the Babylonian creation account that was written in around 1100 BC. The title came from the first line of the story-“When on high”. This story explains how ancient Babylonian viewed the world and humanity. Fresh water god Apsu and salty water god Tiamat are main characters. The story is basically about Apsu was annoyed by the noise made by the gods‚ he decided to destroyed them but he was killed by Ea for his self-protection.
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the two rivers not only instigated variations in the way they dealt with farming but also in the way they viewed their gods. In Mesopotamia Tiamat and Nin-Gursu were the gods who ruled the water. They were feared by the Mesopotamians‚ and were considered to be evil. The people of Mesopotamia blamed their struggles due to poor harvests and lack of food on Tiamat and Nin-Gursu. However‚ in Egypt Hapi‚ the god
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