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Creation Myths in the Ancient World

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

CHAPTER

The Origins of Creation

The other parts of creation occur after the defeat of Tiamat. So you have the sky, a stabs of her body is, you know, cut the slit into two. Then Marduk creates the stars and the planets. And then at the end, he creates Babylon,. He creates this temple, the Asagula, and all the gods convened there. Also, they create humans. Right near the end. It seems like a little bit of an afterthought. But humans are there to worship the gods, basically.

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