Re "Make room for Marduk," Opinion, Sept. 13 I teach Bible as Literature at a public high school, a class where we studied the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation myth about Marduk and Tiamat.

Noteworthiness: This myth reinforced the Babylonian conviction in divine grandness and the triumph of orchestrate over chaos. 2. The Norse Creation Myth: A World Produced from a Giant’s Body ...

That is the critical first step: For these creation myths to work, people had to ascribe to them a level of truth. The same is true for the conspiracy theories supported by QAnon. The myth has to ...

What's in a name? In the case of 'ABZÛ' it's a primordial ocean of wisdom and a deity in an ancient Babylonian creation myth. Both seem appropriate in a game with a distinct new-age, eco ...

The Babylonian epic Gilgamesh was written around 2000 BCE and has survived in several versions. It predates the scriptural story. A tradition dates the revelation of the Bible to 2448 after ...

First, the story existed as myth, inspired in part by the Babylonian creation story, then Saint Augustine made it fact, and biblical literalism reigned for centuries until the Enlightenment, when ...