A reading and analysis of the Babylonian Creation Myth (Enuma Elish), to help understand the evolution of the Proto-Indo European Creation Myth. To me I treat it as the missing link of how we get to the Abrahamic religions from the PIE Creation Myth, and I will talk about that step in a video soon.
Here I read through a contemporary translation I've compiled, and add commentary as I go, to explain the references, the ideas it is trying to apply to the culture, and the hidden footprints of the PIE myths it is walking in.
I do reference a paper (I use JSTOR as most Universities subscribe to it and so it is free for me):
The Fifth Tablet of the Enuma Elis, by Landsberger and Kinnier Wilson, from the Journal of Near Eastern Studies (July 1961)
But I also use the Septuagint version of the Old Testament, and the Jewish Publishing Society Commentary version of the Genesis story in the Torah, as biblical reference.
Chapters
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0:00 Introduction
2:25 A Brief History of the Enuma Elish
4:50 Story: The First Gods + Commentary on who Apsu and Tiamat really were
7:25 Story: The Birth of Ea + Commentary
8:32 Story: The Killing of Apsu + Commentary on Order versus Chaos
11:14 Story: The Birth of Marduk + Commentary on Temples
12:45 Story: Marduk acquires Power + Commentary on Henotheism
13:48 Story: The Rise of Kingu and the Anunnaki + Commentary on Chaos
16:48 Story: The Rise of Marduk + Commentary on Cloth
20:52 Story: Weapons and Winds and the Marduk fights Tiamat
25:53 Story: Creating the world from parts of Tiamat
27:25 Commentary: Tiamat the Cow
28:25 Story: Homes for all the gods + Commentary on Ea's role
29:25 Story: Creating man from Kingu
30:48 Story: Building Temples
33:53 The 50 Names of Marduk
47:32 Story: Ea acknowledges Marduk
49:17 Further analysis of the Proto-Indo European links