The etiology of Enuma Elish, the Babylonian Creation story, imagines the world's creation as an event of divine sacrifice and ordered beauty. The tale tells the anecdote of how the queen of chaos, Tiamet, and her consort Quingu go to war against...

The eternal struggle between optimism and pessimism is never more apparent than in the comparison of the creation myths of the Yoruba and the Babylonians, The Creation of the Universe and Ife and The Enuma Elish respectively. Humanity springs...

Although the claim has been made that the writing of Genesis was influenced by the Babylonian Creation Epic, Enuma Elish, the character and function of Deity in Genesis 1-2 differs greatly than that of Enuma Elish. At first glance, it appears that...