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Fall Asleep Learning The ENTIRE Story of The Enuma Elish

The Enuma Elish stands as ancient Babylon's supreme creation epic, a cosmic drama that established Marduk's supremacy and justified Babylon's political dominance through divine mythology. Composed around 1750 BCE and recited annually during the New Year festival, this seven-tablet masterpiece begins with primordial waters—sweet Apsu and salt Tiamat—mingling to birth the first gods whose noise disturbs their parents' rest. The epic climaxes with Marduk's triumph over Tiamat's chaos monsters, splitting her corpse to fashion heaven and earth while using her commander Kingu's blood to create humanity as servants for the gods. Beyond cosmology, the text functioned as political theology, elevating a local Babylonian deity to king of heaven and legitimizing earthly power through celestial precedent. Its themes of order conquering chaos influenced Genesis's creation account, Canaanite Baal cycles, and Greek succession myths, while its vision of humanity's purpose shaped Mesopotamian religion for two millennia. In this episode, we decode the Enuma Elish—the violent creation myth that explained how chaos became cosmos and why Babylon ruled the ancient world.