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The epic starts off by mentioning Apsu and Tiamat, here the oldest gods, and created a younger generation of the gods. However, Apsu was disturbed by their noisiness and decided to kill them. Ea, however, found out about the plot and kills Apsu and takes his splendour. Later Marduk was born to Ea and Damkina, and already at birth he was special.
Enlil is enraged at Marduk's transgression and orders the gods of Eshumesha to take Marduk and the other Anunnaki as prisoners. [52] The Anunnaki are captured, [52] but Marduk appoints his front-runner Mushteshirhablim to lead a revolt against the gods of Eshumesha [53] and sends his messenger Neretagmil to alert Nabu, the god of literacy. [53]
The Yoruba culture holds that the god Obatala, likewise, created the human race from clay. [33] The Efé people have a creation story in which the first man was made of clay and skin. [27] According to Malagasy mythology, the sky deity Zanahary and the earth deity Ratovantany created the Malagasy people by breathing life into clay dolls. [27]
Marduk is also described as the creator of human beings, which were meant to help the gods in defeating and holding off the forces of chaos and thus maintain order on Earth. [51] The Statue of Marduk was the physical representation of Marduk housed in Babylon's main temple, the Esagila. [51]
Thus, in Russian legends, Satan claims authority over man because he was created from earth, which he took from the bottom of the ocean. [18] Bulgarian legends claim that God created man from earth mixed with his saliva. It is from this saliva that sperm comes. [63] Another Bulgarian legend says that God created humans the way a potter creates ...
Zecharia Sitchin (July 11, 1920 – October 9, 2010) [1] was an author of a number of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts.Sitchin attributed the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he claimed was a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru.
Marduk made likenesses of the gods in the constellations, and defined the days of the year from them. He created night and day, and the moon also. He created clouds and rain, and their water made the Tigris and Euphrates. He gave the 'Tablet of Destinies' to Anu. Statues of the eleven monsters of Tiamat were made and installed at the gate of Apsu.
Ishtar replied "I have saved grain for the people, grass for the cattle."...When Anu heard what Ishtar had said he gave her the Bull of Heaven to lead by the halter down to Uruk. When they reached the gates of Uruk the Bull of Heaven went to the river; with his first snort cracks opened in the earth and a hundred young men fell down to death.