Black and white crop of full engraving plate scan - from Plate 5 of the work "A second series of the monuments of Nineveh: including bas-reliefs from the Palace
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Enuma Elish

Babylon's creation poem has Marduk split the sea-monster Tiamat "like a flat fish" to make the sky

c.12th c. BCE (Nebuchadnezzar I) or earlier

If the poem was written to raise Marduk above older gods, how much of it is cosmology and how much is politics?

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Photo: editor Austen Henry Layard , drawing by L. Gruner, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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