Enuma Elish

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AKA The Seven Tablets of Creation, 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺, Enūma Eliš,

The Babylonian creation myth is told in the Enuma Elish or The Seven Tablets of Creation.

(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Literature in Bible Times by Milton C. Fisher, Page 101-102.)

Archaeology

Thousands of clay tablets dating to the reign of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (~650 B.C.) were found in the royal library at Nineveh during 25 years of excavation in the second half of the 19th century. These were but copies of far older compositions, handed down from Sumerian times. Among them were the creation epic, Enuma Elish, and the Babylonian-Assyrian version of the great flood, part of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Literature in Bible Times by Milton C. Fisher, Page 101-102.)

Enuma Elish Summary

Topics

Figures

  • Anšar, Anshar (male)
  • Anu (male)
  • Apsû, Apsu, Abzu (male)
  • Be-l, Bel
  • Damkina (female)
  • Ea (male)
  • H(ubur, Hubur
  • Kišar, Kishar
  • Lah(amu, Lahamu
  • Lah(mu, Lahmu
  • Marduk
  • Mari-utu, The Son, the Sun-god
  • Mummu (male)
  • Nudimmud (male)
  • Qingu
  • Tia-mat, Tiamat (female)

Peoples

  • Anunnaki

Places

  • Anduruna
  • Chamber of the destinies
  • Room of the archetypes

Other