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.

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.

Elgar's Oratorios: The Creation of an Epic Narrative.

Tablet II of the Babylonian Creation Epic, Iraq, vol.

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.

In the Epic of Creation, it is said that there are 300 lgigu of heaven.

* Charles Edward McGuire Elgar's Oratorios: The Creation of an Epic Narrative Ashgate, Aldershot, 2002 ISBN 0-7546-0271-0

In November 2011, Groom introduced his latest history book, Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847.

* Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847 ( 2011 )

Engines of Creation is the eighth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on March 14, 2000 through Epic Records.

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.

By this time, numerous games based on more advanced graphical technology ( such as id Software's Quake III and Epic MegaGames ' Unreal Tournament ) had already been released, causing Daikatana to lag technologically in the market with its dated Quake II game engine.

This ancient motif of a legendary figure traveling to the end of Earth is also found in the Epic of Gilgamesh, which can be dated to c. 2000 BC, making it one of the earliest known works of literary writing.

Epic poetry, from the Indian Vedas ( 1700 – 1200 BC ) and Zoroaster's Gathas to the Odyssey ( 800 – 675 BC ), appears to have been composed in poetic form to aid memorization and oral transmission, in prehistoric and ancient societies.

Flutes are also mentioned in a recently translated tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem whose development spanned the period of approximately 2100-600 BCE.

Further discoveries produced several versions of the Mesopotamian flood myth, with the account that is closest to that in " Genesis 6 – 9 " found in a 700 BCE Babylonian copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Tumnus also appears in the South Park trilogy, " Imaginationland ", and in Epic Movie as he explains to Lucy that he is a faun.

The Akkadian Atrahasis Epic tells how the god Enki warns the hero Atrahasis (" Extremely Wise ") to build a boat to escape a flood.

The sun god is only modestly mentioned in Sumerian mythology with one of the notable exceptions being the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Also in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ninsun is summoned by Gilgamesh and Enkidu to help pray to the god Utu to help the two on their journey to the Country of the Living to battle Humbaba.

Known as “ Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur and Marduk ” or the Epic of Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur a poetic document deals with the legendary story of his recovery of the statue of Marduk and is one of two hymns glorify his military achievements.

He had been eager to move distribution of the label to A & M Records, which he did as soon as the deal with Epic ended, which might have killed the commercial availability of the single ( though Adler ended up giving Spirit's contract to Epic in the process ).

In other story of the Epic Cycle, subsequent to Odysseus ' death, Penelope marries his son by Circe, Telegonus, with whom she becomes the mother of Italus.

In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh was said to have destroyed a tree that was in a sacred grove dedicated to the goddess Ishtar / Inanna / Asherah.

While many game companies went from FM synthesis or General MIDI in the early 1990s to CD audio and pre-rendered audio, many of the Epic games used the less common system of module music, composed with a tracker, which used stored PCM sound effects sequenced together to produce music.

The band had been signed to the label for 7 years, and used California's " Seven Years Law " as a negotiating tool with Epic / Immortal.

* The conventionalized and poetic dialect of the Attic tragic poets, mixed with Epic and Ionic Greek and used in the episodes.

Full suspension bikes such as the Specialized Epic and the Mérida Ninety Two have been successfully used to win the World Cross Country Championships.

" Epic " has been used as the theme for UK national commercial radio station talkSPORTs live Premier League coverage for the 2011 – 12 season.

Image: Epic Records logo 1991. gif | Stacked-record logo used from 1991 to late 1998.

Image: Epic Records 2011. svg | Red print logo, used from 2011 to present

Internally, Epic used this engine for Unreal and Unreal Tournament.

Epic has used this version of the engine for their in-house games.

This increases all store-credit trade values by 10 %, discounts all used accessories and games by 10 %, gives new members a coupon for ' Buy 2 Get 1 Free ' on pre-owned games / accessories, enters them twice for the Epic Rewards Giveaway for each purchase, and gives them access to special content on the Game Informer website.

* Epic Games Japan, which is based in Tokyo, is used for game engine licensing and support.

The label used to be a subsidiary of Epic Records, but is now independent.

Computer games by Epic Games like Unreal and Unreal Tournament or Ion Storms Deus Ex used the Fast Tracker II XM format additionally to others, encapsulated in a " UMX " Container, supported by the Galaxy Sound Engine.

Scholars sometimes include the two Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, among the poems of the Epic Cycle, but the term is more often used to specify the non-Homeric poems as distinct from the Homeric ones.

Squats were characterised in Epic with colossal war machines, including the Land Train ( which supported many different cars, including the Dragon Car, the Berserker Car, the Mortar Car and the Rad Bomb car ), Leviathan ( used as a mobile infantry transport, capable of holding almost a hundred squats within ), Cyclops ( a spaceship weapon mounted on a Colossus chassis and used originally to devastate rival Squat warlord's war machines ) and Colossus.

Recently, " Cherry Cola " was used in a Microsoft Zune commercial, and " Don't Speak " was featured in Epic Movie, where the band is seen playing it live ; in addition, the song was used in a Guy Ritchie-directed Nike ad ahead of UEFA Euro 2008.

In 2005, Gearbox licensed the Unreal 3 engine from Epic Games, to replace the Unreal 2 engine technology used in previous games, and grew its internal development teams to handle the demands of next-generation technology and content.

In some cases a working title may ultimately be used as the official title, as in the case of the films Cloverfield, High School Musical, and Snakes on a Plane ( at the insistence of leading man, Samuel L. Jackson, who joked that he took the role for the working title alone, after he learned the title was going to be changed to Pacific Air Flight 121 upon release ), the television show The Cleveland Show, and video games Quake II, Spore, Silent Hill Origins and Epic Mickey.

* ProTracker Studio format, a module file format that was used in many games published by Epic Games in the early 1990s