The Babylonian Legends of Creation (Illustrated)

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This reprint of The Babylonian Legends of Creation includes the writer’s original and the most important charts; artifact and tablet photographs; illustrations and cuneiform.

Vital for understanding the roots of Babylonian society, this text summarizes every of the tablets detailing Babylonian beliefs regarding the world’s creation. E. A. Wallis Budge undertook an immense investigation of the creation myths first uncovered by archaeological excavations all through the 19th century. These myths were etched upon seven tablets of stone, all of that have been covered in cuneiform script; some of the earliest forms of writing.

As some of the oldest religious writings in existence, the Babylonian creation myths – sometimes called Enûma Eliš – reveal a society steeped in religious belief and ritualistic culture. The two Gods, Marduk and Tiamat, battle with one some other for supremacy – amid the fighting, the world is created. Marduk, as the ultimate victor, becomes King of the Gods.

Within Budge’s outstanding treatise are sequential explanations of the individual tablets. These are followed with a line-by-line translation to English of every. This narrative is supplemented by photographs of Babylonian artifacts plus the tablets themselves. Also appended on the conclusion of this edition are notes which further give an explanation for the characters and deities referred to in the Babylonian cuneiform script.

A landmark text in archaeology by some of the British Museum’s best regarded scholars of the ancient world, The Babylonian Legends of Creation remains a valuable and worthy addition to any enthusiast’s library.

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