I enjoyed reading the Enuma elish. I think that it is interesting learning about this lore because I used to be very interested in the Percy Jackson book series so I knew a lot about the ancient Norse, Greek/Roman, and even some about Egyptian mythology. It’s also interesting to learn about this because I’ve heard many stories about the Babylonian exile but not what what the Babylonians believed in. Reading this passage you can see some similarities and many differences between Judeo Christian and Babylonian creation stories. Right of the bat they are semi similar in the fact that the stories start before there was anything and Apsu/our God creates something. After that the stories grow different from each other. The many Gods of the Babylonian faith is definitely something different from the Judeo Christian beliefs. I see parallels between Ea and Zeus as they’re both multiple generations down from the creator, but are the most powerful. Something I see different between the Enuma elish and Greek stories is the eerieness of it all. I suppose I wasn’t consuming the same sort of translations of the Greek stories but diction in the Enuma elish like, “Transmitting the sleep it then made Apsu sleep,” and “He shot therethrough an arrow, it pierced her stomach,
Clave through her bowels, tore into her womb.” It just gives me an uneasy feeling that all sorts of other texts don’t produce for me.
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