Enuma

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

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

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

Turn to the next page of your notebook and pencil in the “Enuma Elish”, which is the Babylonian Creation Myth, or the story of Midas, the wealthy king of Phrygia in Asia Minor who was called upon to attend a musical contest between the god Apollo and the satyr Pan.

Inspiration on Demand: Create a Swipe File | Write to Done 2008

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

The battle between the dragons and the possessed Mim more-or-less resembles the ancient Near Eastern Combat Myth, a widespread story of creation best known from the Babylonian Enuma Elish in which Marduk defeats the rampant nature goddess Tiamat.

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

The best-known version of the Combat Myth is the Enuma Elish from Mesopotamia, written, in the second millennium B.C., which depicts the god Marduk defeating a chaotic nature goddess named Tiamat.

RCIA Presentation: The Old Testament 2007

Like the author of the Enuma Elish epic, the author of Genesis 1 believed that the sky and sea were created by dividing waters and using a dome to hold up the "waters above".

Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3 James F. McGrath 2009