The Apsu Saga in Enūma eliš
(Translation and Comments)
Keywords:
Enuma elish, Babylonian cosmogony, Babylonian TheogonyAbstract
This paper presents a translation with comments of the first seventy-eight verses of Enūma eliš, in which, along with the genealogical line that goes from Apsu-Tiámat to Ea, it is reported how the latter overcame the first of the gods.
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