The Babylonian Legends of Creation and the Fight Between Bel and the Dragon

by E.A. Wallis Budge · 1921

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This volume brings together ancient Mesopotamian texts translated by the Egyptologist E. A. Wallis Budge. Its centerpiece is a version of the Babylonian account of creation, in which the gods bring order out of a primeval watery chaos and the god Marduk rises to supremacy. Alongside it sits a story of the god Bel and a great dragon, a tale that shows how the Babylonians imagined divine power and the defeat of monstrous forces. Budge's translations were among the early English-language renderings of these texts, and the book remains a window onto the religious imagination of ancient Babylon.

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