The Origins of Marduk

Although known as a minor God, Marduk became an important local deity at the time of the advent of the first Babylonian dynasty. He started a war to allow himself to take over kingship of the earth ahead of his scheduled arraignment. You got to read these ancient texts, man. This stuff is wild. There's nobody sitting around in ancient times saying, you know what I'm going to make? I'm about to make me a good sci-fi movie and start writing all this cuneiform stuff.