#Enūma Eliš

[drachenwiki]

Isn't it weird that the battle between Marduk and Tiamat in the Enūma eliš gets framed as order vs chaos with Marduk being order and Tiamat being chaos after the whole plot is triggered by the gods, including Marduk, being chaotic and troublesome and disturbing Tiamat and Apsu who just want to live in peace? I mean, Apsu does overreact slightly, but in the beginning, it's the gods who are chaotic. It's only after Tiamats death that Marduk brings order into the world and lives up to his alignment.

#tiamat #apsu #marduk #Enūma eliš #chaoskampf #dragonslayer

[sakuraswordly]

#sumer #sumerian #sumerians #Sumerianlanguage #Sumeriacuneiform #ancientsumer #ancientsumerans #Babylon #Babylonia #ancientiraq #iraq #cuneiform #Assyriology #العراق #العراقـالعظيم #سومر #السومريين #ancient #Akkadian Language #Enūma Eliš #Myth #hmm...

[basilibino]

Not sure the true level of forethought and intention behind it, bc I know early concept illustrations had wind and water ninja, but Wind and Water being these primordial elements even the FSM couldn't directly control is a fun idea and while it was. Super Belated in being utilized and delivered to the audience, I enjoy it as a way to explain why The Core Four Elements of the show included Frozen Water and Unstable Air Pressure Output, but not Water or Air/Wind. They were the closest FSM could get, lmao

#i think it was initially more to differentiate the show from ATLA #but with the introduction of Chaoskampf and Enūma Eliš flavoring to the creation myth with seabound #idk i like it :) #lego ninjago #ninjago #first spinjitzu master

[milf-harrington]

FUN TBOS FACT ABOUT TIAMAT! she's very dreea coded!!! (which is funny to me bc it wasn't actually on purpose and i only discovered tiamat later on in my research and went 'wait a minute...' i love it when that happens). so tiamat is associated with serpents and dragons a lot of the time and she's also the mother of all the gods (and the goddess of chaos bc apparently she wasn't serving hard enough already). like she was not only one of the first entities in the mythology but she was regarded as ruling over all the others, and the creation story follows the rise of marduk via the slaying of tiamat, which is so cool of her to be quite honest. so there's the whole serpent imagery mother goddess thing there and she also birthed a shit ton of monsters which is ofc soooo dreaacore (im guessing these monsters are why dnd got its hands on tiamat? idk but if it is that's honestly fairs. i recommend looking up the monsters of tiamat/tiamat's creatures bc they're soooooo). i think you'd like this part of the mythology especially bc of how you write nobodies hero, but tiamat was eventually killed bc she was too hashtag real for everyone else and when she died she was sliced in half by marduk and "he made from her ribs the vault of heaven and earth. Her weeping eyes became the sources of the Tigris and the Euphrates, her tail became the Milky Way" how cool is that! also her son/lover (yeah...) was also beheaded and his blood mixed with clay to make the first humans. i love it when something divine is slain and their very essence is so powerful that it mixes with the surroundings to create something new like that is truly thee trope of all time. this is all from the enūma eliš which is a babylonian creation story btw. okay i swear im done

god thats so fucking cool that you just Know That

#also just cool in general wtf #and youre SO RIGHT i love that her body became pieces of the world we know #i love that shit #asks #tbos-main #tbos posting

[dailyhistoryposts]

World Literature Series: Popol Vuh

TITLE: Popol Vuh (Pop Wuj, other variations)

DATE: undated, ancient. At least 300 BCE

COUNTRY, REGION, OR PEOPLE: K’iche’ people, indigenous to what is now Guatemala and parts of Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador

TYPE: epic (oral history)

BACKGROUND: Popol Vuh is a sacred text of the K’iche’ (Spanish: Quiché) people, one of the Maya peoples. The K’iche’ people have existed since time immemorial in Central America. Their civilization has existed in many forms over the centuries, most notably the Q’umarkaj kingdom (Nahuatl: Utatlán), which was at its height after the decline of the Maya Civilization. Q’umarkaj was established in 1225 CE, but the K’iche’ people and their stories existed long before.

Stucco panels dated to 300 BCE in El Mirador, Guatemala, show aspects of the Popol Vuh. It’s unknown exactly how long the epic has existed in its current form, but at least parts of it are from well before Q’umarkaj and indeed before the Classic-period of Maya culture.

The current form is from the mid-16th century, and was copied and translated by friar Francisco Ximenez. Its survival amidst the deliberate imperial and religious destruction of indigenous pieces of cultures, myths, and stories is remarkable. Most were burned--remember that Maya civilizations had writing before European contact.

SYNOPSIS: Popol Vuh is divided into five parts: a preamble and four books. It tells of the creation of the animals and people by the gods, and the exploits of the gods, including mentions to the realm of the gods and the underworld.

In the preamble, we are introduced to Xmucane and Xpiacoc, the oldest of gods, and we see a description of the importance of the Popol Vuh.

In Book One, the gods make animals and humans, but the humans do not survive. This book includes a flood myth, often seen in creation stories around the world.

In Book Two, the Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque restore order to the world by killing the demon Vucub-Caquix and his sons.

In Book Three, the gods fight with each other and, in killing some, create the sun and moon.

In Book Four, the gods successfully create humans from maize and the tells the beginning of the K’iche’ people.

THEMES: Gods, humans, power, morality, and names. 

OTHER CREATION EPICS: The book of Genesis (Jewish, and other religions), the Enūma Eliš (Bablyonian), and several civilizations had Cosmogonies (Greek, Scandinavian, and others). Many include flood myths as well.

AREʼ U XEʼ OJER TZIJ, Waral Kʼicheʼ u bʼiʼ.

THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE ANCIENT TRADITIONS of this place called Quiché.

Human Sacrifice and Self-Sacrifice before the God Tohil (1931)by Diego Rivera, watercolor on paper.

[A watercolor of 11 people bowing and bleed themselves before a figure with a human body and the head of a serpent. One human holds a torch aflame. In one corner is a bat, and the other a blue and white pattern.]

Main post for the World Literature series

#history #indigenous #popol vuh #book #diego rivera #mythology #indigenous religions #colonialism #imperialism #blood

[house-of-the-lion-archives]

“Only Kingu – her general – came to the Four and bowed his head. “

“She exalted Qingu, and magnified him among them. The leadership of the army, the direction of the host, The bearing of weapons, campaigning, the mobilisation of conflict, The chief executive power of battle, supreme command, She entrusted to him and set him on a throne, "I have cast the spell for you and exalted you in the host of the gods, I have delivered to you the rule of all the gods. You are indeed exalted, my spouse, you are renowned. Let your commands prevail over all the Anunnaki." She gave him the Tablet of Destinies and fastened it to his breast, (Saying) "Your order may not be changed; let the utterance of your mouth be firm."”

Kingu in the world of The Flower of Tiamat´s fire

The reputation of chaos mages being elusive and mysterious is mainly thanks to him. Around his persona are many question marks floating, but here is what we of the Archives know as of now:

During the war against Tiamat he served as her general, but when she was put to sleep he changed sides and took Ereshkigal´s place as the fifth member of the Five.

The most important of his possessions is undoubtedly the Dragon amulet which holds the pearl that keeps him alive. With it his power is much stronger and he doesn’t decay. The dragon amulet was given to him by his mother, Tiamat. The story of how he lost the amulet was told to us by Ereshkigal. How much of it is true and how much was just the Queen's manipulation we do not know. Still, the story goes that Ningal, the beloved of Kingu, stole the amulet. Bloodhounds of the Five hunted her down and mortally wounded her. But that wasn’t enough for the furious Kingu and chased after her to finish her off.

In contrast, when Iyar´s life was in mortal danger when he started to uncover the misdeeds of the Five with his songs, it was Kingu who hid him in the chaos, and later left him with the former general and now Warden of the House of the Lion, Niall, where he would be safe.

Kingu got into a disagreement with the Five sometime prior the beginning of the story and left Ur. Going by the name Sin and pretending to be a student, he befriended Nikkal and helped her in finding clues on her missing brother, who coincidentally had the dragon amulet in his possession.

Kingu in mythology

Kingu, alternatively spelled Qingu, is a figure in Babylonian mythology. As we are told in the creation epic Enūma eliš, Tiamat, determined to destroy the other gods, created a mighty army and set Kingu at its head. Kingu was Tiamat´s son and her spouse.

The name Kingu means “Unskilled labourer”.

Tiamat gave Kingu the Tablet of Destinies, which he wore as a breastplate and which gave him great power. After they were defeated, however, Tiamat was killed by Marduk in battle and Kingu was executed. From his blood Ea then created humanity.

It has to be noted that Enūma eliš, unlike most of the myths we previously talked about, is of Babylonian origin and one of its possible purposes was establishing Marduk, the patron god of Babylon, as the chief deity in the pantheon and replacing Enlil/An/Enki as the supreme ruler of the cosmos.

Do you wish to read the Enūma eliš yourself, young mage? You can! Its right here

#tiamatAW #the flower from tiamat's fire #rc tiamat #romance club #kingu

[akashicrecord]

You can read all about me in the Enūma Eliš

[jaeltree]

Even if you can find eternal life and get the power of God that will allow you to change the matter of the universe as you please, isn't that a huge responsibility? You can destroy or subjugate all living things, you will most likely be able to create new forms of life, create continents, etc. Doesn't all this impose a responsibility on you to maintain some kind of balance, or do you decide to leave it all in chaos and watch until they establish their own order?

Mozenrath pinched the bridge of his nose. He didn't exactly want to be talking about religion. Especially about a god whose various doctrines explicitly states to kill people like him. But he channelled the archeologist in him, and started explaining as objectively as possible.

"Have you read the Enūma Eliš? It's the earliest record we can find of humanity's creation myths, and centres itself around the Babylonian pantheon. Now, Babylon would be about 50 miles south of Baghdad, along the Euphrates River in present-day Iraq. Back in those times, humanity was slaves to the gods. Violence, floods, genocides, human sacrifice, divinely-ordained illness, and plagues. The whole shebang.

"Then came along another god, one from the Canaanite pantheon, that the Israelites took a real liking to. So, they made him their chief god; then, eventually over time, he became their sole god. No other gods before him morphed into he is the only true god. What set him aside from the other gods in particular, was that they made it known they didn't care for humanity; but he claimed that he did.

"That being said, his doctrine was still a product of its times. There was still violence, floods, genocides, slavery, divinely-ordained illness, and plagues even in how he said people should live. You can read all this in the First Testament. The exception being human sacrifice, so I guess he was progressive in that sense. Moving forward with the change of times, beliefs, values, wars, historical events, cultures and laws-- his doctrine changed, too. Now we have the First and Second Testament of the Bible, as well as the Quran."

Mozenrath turned around, leaning his elbows against the window still. "Now, for your question about the responsibility of such power; it would be. But who is the ultimate authority of how balance is maintained, if not those with ultimate power? And it would seem that God creates morality, according to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. So if I were to ever replace him, it can be argued I'll be right in no matter what I do. Look, the fact of the matter is is that if I gain the power of God, I'll replace him, so I'll use it as how I want and how I see fit."

#Mozenrath #in character ask #rp ask #Esoterica on youtube has a really good episode on God if you're interested

[deathlessathanasia]

“In mainstream Greek myth, Okeanos is conceived of as a freshwater stream surrounding the whole of the earth, and the source of all streams and rivers as well as the sea. (Hes. Th. 337-70; Il. 21.1957, 18.607-8). The sun and the stars, the thirsty Bear excepted, rise and set in the bath of Okeanos (Il. 7.422, 8.485, 18.240; Od. 5.275, 19.434, 23.244, 347, etc.); the idea of the sun returning to the east in Okeanos' stream during the night is also early (Eumel. fr. 10 West, Mimn. fr. 12, Stesich. PMGF 185). Hesiod (Th. 133-6) makes Okeanos and Tethys ordinary Titans, children of Ouranos and Gaia. As mentioned above, however, an intriguing line in the Iliad (1+201 = 302) suggests an alternative theogony, according to which Okeanos and Tethys were the original parents; . . . The notion of the primeval 'waters comes to Greece ultimately from Mesopotamia. At the very beginning of the Babylonian epic Enūma Eliš, Apsu (fresh water) unites with Tiamat (the sea) to produce Anu (Sky) and Ea (Earth). The idea is found also in Genesis 1, where God separates the waters as the first step in creation, and in all versions of the creation story throughout the Near East and in Hesiod, 'the first separation [is] anthropomorphized as a quarrel . . . between either Sky and Earth, or the aquatic parents of Sky and Earth' (Janko, on Il. 14.200-7). "Tethys name could even be derived from that of Tiamat, and a Semitic derivation has also been suggested for Okeanos;" that Pherekydes of Syros calls him Ogenos also suggests that the name is a loan-word. We have seen that an Orphic theogony reflected in Plato's Timaios puts Okeanos and Tethys in their own generation after Ouranos and Ge, as parents of the Titans; and at Krat. 402b Plato quotes an Orphic couplet (fr. 15) in which Okeanos and Tethys were 'first to marry', a notion which must also reflect their status as alternatives to Ouranos and Ge. . . .

The children of Okeanos mentioned in our corpus are mostly daughters: Hesione, wife of Prometheus and mother of Deukalion (Akous. fr. 34); Europe and Thraike, daughters of Okeanos by Parthenope, and Asia and Libye, daughters by Pompholyge (Andron fr. 7); Styx (Epimen. fr. 7); Seirenes by Ge (Epimen. fr. 8, suppl.); Rhodos (Epimen. fr. 11); Ephyra wife of Epimetheus (Eumel. fr. 1); Perseis (Hek. fr. 35A); Daeira, sister of Styx (Pher. fr. 45); Philyra, mother of Cheiron (Pher. fr. 50); Peitho, wife of Argos (Pher. fr. 66); Aithra, wife of Atlas (Pher. fr. 9). Of sons, we hear of Triptolemos, son by Ge (Pher. fr. 53); possibly also the text of Apollodoros should be emended so that Asopos is a son of Okeanos in Akous. fr. 21. In Archaic poetry rivers are sons of Okeanos, springs are daughters. The names of the latter therefore often suggest qualities associated with water; however, because they are kourotrophoi (Th. 347), their names sometimes connote wealth, bounty, or desirable moral and intellectual qualities: e.g. Plouto, Tyche, Idyia, Metis, Melobosis, Peitho (if not rather an erotic association), Eurynome. Their generally benevolent and sympathetic nature is on display in the Prometheus Bound, whose chorus they form, and in vase painting where they are companions of Persephone at her unfortunate abduction.”

- Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary, Robert Louis Fowler

#okeanos #tethys #river gods #potamoi #okeanids #okeanides #theogony #cosmogony #excerpts #quotes

[sauragos]

When the heavens above did not exist, And earth beneath had not come into being— There was Apsû, the first in order, their begetter, And demiurge Tiāmat, who gave birth to them all; [Enūma Eliš, Translation by Wilfred G. Lambert]

#art #creature design #digital drawing #my art #character art #mythology #mesopotamia #mesopotamian mythology #enuma elish #fantasy

[gsllc]

The Enūma Eliš #MythologyMonday #MythologyMonandæg #folklore #god #love @mythsexplained

If you enjoy this post, please retweet it. YouTube suggested this video on Tiamat by Mythology & Fiction Explained. This video got me thinking (always dangerous). Decades of Dungeons & Dragons lore (whether playing or not) led me to thinking Tiamat was a purely evil creature. I found it funny that one of her heads appears to be smiling. I had forgotten that things aren’t so simply with her.…

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#folklore #god #love #Mesopotamia #mythology #Sumerian

[sakuraswordly]

Knowledge 22

Summary

The skills of the Assyrian “engineers” are attested in the fields of city planning, the construction of monumental buildings and bridges, hydraulic engineering, and transportation of heavy loads. In all major engineering projects, the Assyrian king appears in a key position as the principal client, financier, and manager. Hydraulic works are attested in the Near East in all historical periods and geographical regions. Among the most significant engineering projects were the Assyrian hydraulic installations created from the 13th century BCE onward in conjunction with the foundation of new royal residences or with the reshaping of existing cities. Timber was scarce in Assyria but was indispensable for the roofing of buildings and the construction of gates, and thus its acquisition and transport represented a particular concern. The water transport of timber is attested several times in the correspondence of Sargon II. Another method for transportation is shown on a wall relief from Sargon's palace in Dur-Šarrukin.

[W.G._Lambert]_Babylonian_Creation_Myths

#sakuraswordly #tsubasa of phantasia comic #Kujaku still don't believe that Punch's Gilgamesh's brother lol #Maybe this will be the last time you see Kujaku's real happiness. #tsubasa of phantasia knowledge #fgo enkidu #enkidu #Tsofph Kujaku #clamp kujaku #Assyrian Technology #Introduction: The Text of Enūma Eliš

[thefatecrate]

Enūma Eliš.

#yay for silly fun aesthetic titling :-]] #but yeah kinda. au thing ive been thinking abt since playing enkidu's interludes where they refer to their systems and kina themselves in #a very mechanical way #so. ya :-D #me arts #crow.img #fate #fate grand order #fgo enkidu

[foxydivaxx]

Little something I learnt about Gilgamesh and ancient Babylon today thanks to research. Remember his Noble Phantasm Enuma Elish? The name was gotten from the ancient Babylonian creation myth name Enūma Eliš. It is also spelled as Enuma Elish and that name is the opening words on the tablets of said myth. It is amazing how much historical context was put into the Fate series as evidenced here.

#gilgamesh #fate series #fate grand order #history lesson of sorts

[qualbuonvento]

Quando non aveva nome il Cielo.

Enūma eliš

Tra le più antiche cosmologie è da annoverare quella assiro babilonese descritta nel poema, appartenente alla biblioteca del re Assurbanipal (VII secolo a.C.), riportato in sette tavolette d’argilla ritrovate negli scavi di Ninive. Questo testo, copia di un’opera più antica databile al 1100 a.C., porta il titolo, che riprende le prime parole con cui inizia, di Enūma eliš.

#cielostellato #cosmologia #antichità

[rythuliansoup]

Just read an Enūma Eliš summary and it SLAPS

#as an ABZÛ fan #it slaps even harder #anyways here is my interpretation of evil Tiamat