Though still censored, she was concerned to re-construct work that had been destroyed or suppressed during the purges or which had posed a threat to the life of her son in the camps, such as the lost, semi-autobiographical play Enûma Elish.

In order to explain how Marduk seized power, Enûma Elish was written, which tells the story of Marduk's birth, heroic deeds and becoming the ruler of the gods.

In Enûma Elish, a civil war between the gods was growing to a climactic battle.

It is thought that the name of Tiamat was dropped in secondary translations of the original religious texts because some Akkadian copyists of Enûma Elish substituted the ordinary word for " sea " for Tiamat, since the two names had become essentially the same, due to association.

The Enûma Elish specifically states that Tiamat did give birth to dragons and serpents, but they are included among a larger and more general list of monsters including scorpion men and merpeople, none of which imply that any of the children resemble the mother or are even limited to aquatic creatures.

In the Enûma Elish her physical description includes a tail, a thigh, " lower parts " ( which shake together ), a belly, an udder, ribs, a neck, a head, a skull, eyes, nostrils, a mouth, and lips.

* Apsu, in the Babylonian creation epic the Enûma Elish, was killed by his son Ea in the struggle for supremacy among the gods.

Enûma Elish.

The Abzu freshwater sea was also depicted as a deity in the Babylonian creation myth, the Enûma Elish, where he was a primal being made of fresh water and a lover to another primal deity, Tiamat, who was a creature of salt water.

One of the oldest versions of this story is the creation myth of Babylon ( the Enûma Elish ) from around 1250 B. C.

While contrasting the Enûma Elish with the Genesis creation myth found in the Book of Genesis, Wink examines the psychological effects of each phase of the story.

It has also been postulated that the creation story of genesis was developed in reaction to earlier stories, including the Enûma Elish, since the stories share common elements that other creation beliefs lack.

In the later Babylonian epic Enûma Eliš, Abzu, the " begetter of the gods ", is inert and sleepy but finds his peace disturbed by the younger gods, so sets out to destroy them.

** Marduk killing Tiamat in the Babylonian Enûma Eliš

According to Sitchin, Nibiru ( whose name was replaced with MARDUK in original legends by the Babylonian ruler of the same name in an attempt to co-opt the creation for himself, leading to some confusion among readers ) collided catastrophically with Tiamat ( a goddess in the Babylonian creation myth the Enûma Eliš ), which he considers to be another planet once located between Mars and Jupiter.

It is generally accepted amongst modern Assyriologists that the Enûma Elish-the Babylonian creation epic to which this mythological strand is attributed-has been written as political and religious propaganda rather than reflecting a Sumerian tradition ; the dating of the epic is not completely clear, but judging from the mythological topics covered and the cuneiform versions discovered thus far, it is likely to date it to the 15th century BCE.

The Enûma Eliš has about a thousand lines and is recorded in Old Babylonian on seven clay tablets, each holding between 115 and 170 lines of text.

The Enûma Eliš, a creation myth epic was an original Babylonian work.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, a masterpiece of ancient Babylonian poetry, was found in the library as was the Enûma Eliš creation story, and myth of Adapa the first man, and stories such as the Poor Man of Nippur.

The German historian Hanspeter Schaudig has identified a line on the Cylinder (" He Marduk saved his city Babylon from its oppression ") with a line from tablet VI of the Babylonian " Epic of Creation ", Enûma Eliš, in which Marduk builds Babylon.

Another epic was that of the " Creation " Enûma Eliš, whose object was to glorify Bel-Marduk by describing his contest with Tiamat, the dragon of chaos.

This festival celebrated the re-creation of the Earth, drawing from the Marduk-centered creation story described in the Enûma Eliš.

A review article by Andrew R. George says that its builder may have " reigned in the fourteenth, twelfth, eleventh or ninth century " but argues that The reference to a ziqqurrat at Babylon in the Creation Epic ( Enûma Eliš · VI 63: George 1992: 301-2 ) is more solid evidence, however, for a Middle Assyrian piece of this poem survives to prove the long-held theory that it existed already in the second millennium BC.

Lambert has suggested that it was during his reign that Marduk was elevated to the head of the pantheon, displacing Enlil and that the Enûma Eliš was possibly composed, but some historians claim an origin during the earlier Kassite dynasty.

The Enûma Eliš, a text written between the 18th and 16th centuries BC, describes five personified cosmic elements: the sea, earth, sky, fire, and wind.

The Enûma Eliš, a text written between the 18th and 16th centuries BC, describes four cosmic elements: the sea, earth, sky, and wind.

The Enûma Eliš exists in various copies from Babylon and Assyria.

** Enuma Elish ( Babylonian mythology )

After six generations of Gods, in the Babylonian " Enuma Elish ", in the seventh generation, ( Akkadian " shapattu " or sabath ), the younger Igigi Gods, the sons and daughters of Enlil and Ninlil, go on strike and refuse their duties of keeping the creation working.

Among the findings were the Enuma Elish, also known as the Epic of Creation, which depicts a traditional Babylonian view of creation, the Epic of Gilgamesh, a large selection of " omen texts " including Enuma Anu Enlil which " contained omens dealing with the moon, its visibility, eclipses, and conjunction with planets and fixed stars, the sun, its corona, spots, and eclipses, the weather, namely lightning, thunder, and clouds, and the planets and their visibility, appearance, and stations ", and astronomic / astrological texts, as well as standard lists used by scribes and scholars such as word lists, bilingual vocabularies, lists of signs and synonyms, and lists of medical diagnoses.

In the Babylonian creation story Enuma Elish the universe was in a formless state and is described as a watery chaos.

In other stories, the universe is created by crafting it from pre-existing materials, such as the corpse of a dead god — as from Tiamat in the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish or from the giant Ymir in Norse mythology – or from chaotic materials, as in Izanagi and Izanami in Japanese mythology.

Other examples might include the wars of the Æsir with the Vanir and Jotuns in Scandinavian mythology, the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, the Hittite " Kingship in Heaven " Kumarbi narrative, the struggle between the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Fomorians in Celtic mythology, and the obscure generational conflict in Ugaritic fragments.

* Enuma Elish ( Babylonian creation epic )

The Babylonian epic Enuma Elish is named for its incipit: " When above " the heavens did not yet exist nor the earth below, Apsu the freshwater ocean was there, " the first, the begetter ", and Tiamat, the saltwater sea, " she who bore them all "; they were " mixing their waters ".

* Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation story

Among the findings was the Enuma Elish, also known as the Epic of Creation, which depicts a traditional Babylonian view of creation where the god Marduk slays Tiamat, the personification of salt water, and creates the world from her body.

The Anunnaki appear in the Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish.

Parallels between the Hebrew Genesis and the Babylonian Enuma Elish were established by H. Gunkel in 1910.

In the Babylonian creation story Enuma Elish the primordial world is described as a watery chaos from which everything else appeared.

An example is the Babylonian Enuma Elish.