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Does the Bible Borrow from Other Creation Stories? – Ancient Cosmology E2

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The Creation Narratives in Genesis

There are two narratives that make up genesis one and two. Sumerian is the culture that existed in the deltas of tigus yep, tigus euphrates, mesopotamia. After sumerian culture passed from the scene, what took its place and overshadowed it was the ancient babylon came into existence. So you have a tier ofpreexistent deities. They just exist, but they exist in a really clear social order. You have nlil gonam enlill, who's kind of like atum or on in these other ones. He's just there before everything else, the chief deity,. And he's got two co deities that

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