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  • There's also a claim that the ancient Babylonian Enuma Elish is really a description of planets colliding and aliens manufacturing the human race a la Lovecraft.

    March Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour, Day 1 2007

  • There's also a claim that the ancient Babylonian Enuma Elish is really a description of planets colliding and aliens manufacturing the human race a la Lovecraft.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • Ingersoll traces all images of the dragon back to Tiamat, the watery, primordial goddess slain by Marduk in the Enuma Elish, a Babylonian version of the combat myth; as they appear in various myths around the world, dragons are typicallly associated with water, though in different contexts, so that some are rain gods, some are guardians of underground pools, and some are chthonic representatives of the chaotic sea.

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • The Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish is found in many translations, including Pritchard 60–72.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Ingersoll traces all images of the dragon back to Tiamat, the watery, primordial goddess slain by Marduk in the Enuma Elish, a Babylonian version of the combat myth; as they appear in various myths around the world, dragons are typicallly associated with water, though in different contexts, so that some are rain gods, some are guardians of underground pools, and some are chthonic representatives of the chaotic sea.

    You Go, Greydanus, or, O'Brien and the Dragon 2010

  • The Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish is found in many translations, including Pritchard 60–72.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish is found in many translations, including Pritchard 60–72.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Yesterday's supreme court decision had been anticipated, and Scotland's top law officer, the lord advocate, Elish Angiolini QC, said that in preparation for a change in the law, officials from the Crown Office had been working with the police and government officials to minimise the risk to live cases.

    Scotland rushes through new laws after court ruling on questioning suspects Kirsty Scott 2010

  • The attempted letter bomb attacks stunned Scottish football, and the legal and political establishment, leading to the personal intervention last week of the prime minister, David Cameron, and the Lord Advocate, Elish Angiolini, the head of the Scottish prosecution system.

    Fifth suspect package found in bomb campaign against Celtic 2011

  • Scotland's chief legal officer, the Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini, who is in charge of all prosecutions in Scotland, has come out firmly against the proposal on extending pre-charge detention to 42 days:

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

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