The Babylonian Legends of the Creation

About this eBook

Author

Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934

Credits

Produced by the PG Distributed Proofreaders

Language

English

LoC Class

BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

Subject

Assyro-Babylonian literature

Category

Text

eBook-No.

9914

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9914

Release Date

February 1, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Babylonian Legends of the Creation — and the
2. 2.Discovery of the Tablets.
3. 3.Publication of the Creation Tablets.
4. 4.The Object of the babylonian Legend of the Creation.
5. 5.Variant Forms of the Babylonian Legend of the Creation.
6. 6.The "Bilingual" Version of the Creation Legend.
7. 7.The Legend of the Creation According to Berosus and Damascius.
8. 8.The Seven Tablets of Creation. Description of Their Contents.
9. 9.The Seven Tablets of Creation.--Translation. — FIRST TABLET. 22 — SECOND TABLET. — THIRD TABLET. — FOURTH TABLET. — FIFTH TABLET. — SIXTH TABLET. — SEVENTH TABLET. — EPILOGUE.
10. 10.Notes.
11. 11.Lost of the name of the Stars or Signs of the Zodiac, with a List Showing the Month that was Associated with Each Star in the Persian Period.
12. 12.Footnotes.

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