![]() He then took Apsu’s royal tiara and supernatural radiance for himself and killed Apsu, the father of all the gods. But Ea through the power of the spoken word of a magic spell put Apsu to sleep. When peaceful attempts to quiet them failed, Apsu determined to destroy them. “He had no rival among his fellow-gods.” The younger gods were noisy and loud, disturbing the older gods, Apsu and Tiamat. Anu’s son was Ea, who became the god of the subterranean sweet-waters, the god of magic and eventually the mastermind of all the divinities. Together they had a son named Anu, who was the sky-god. In time, Apsu and Tiamat had more children, Anshar and Kishar. But as yet, there was no heaven or earth. ![]() The three types of water were mingled together, forming an undefined mass in which were all the elements from which the universe was later made. When Apsu and Tiamat comingled their waters, they gave birth to Lahmu and Lahamu, two silt deposits who eventually formed land. Mummu was the mist rising from the two bodies of water and hovering over them. Apsu was the primeval sweet-water ocean and Tiamat was the primeval salt-water ocean. Maybe Mummu was a popular name back then). In the beginning there was only the divine parents-Apsu and Tiamat-and their son, Mummu (Remember, this was ancient Babylon. In the Enuma elish, we find a story of how the earth came to be. “In my estimation, no incontrovertible evidence can for the present be produced for either side.” Poetically, he said: “the resemblances fade away almost like the stars before the sun.” However, some of the similarities are striking. Ultimately Heidel felt that the differences were far too great and the similarities far too insignificant. Drawing on the work of Alexander Heidel in Babylonian Genesis, we find both parallels and differences between the Enuma elish and Genesis 1. Some biblical scholars hold that Genesis 1 either used the Babylonian creation myth, the Enuma elish, or was generally dependent upon it and other Mesopotamian traditions. ![]()
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