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Enuma Elish

The Babylonian epic of creation: Marduk's battle with Tiamat and the ordering of heaven and earth, on seven tablets.

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Enuma Elish, tr. E. A. Wallis Budge
E. A. Wallis Budge, 1921

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E. A. Wallis Budge's translation (1921), made when several tablets were still fragmentary. Square brackets mark his restorations of damaged text; later finds have filled in and corrected many passages.

The Seven Tablets of Creation, translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, in The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight between Bel and the Dragon (London: British Museum, 1921). Public domain. Transcription by Project Gutenberg volunteers (eBook #9914), corrected against the 1921 printing. · Source ↗

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