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The Ancient Mesopotamian Myth
In order understand it properly, you have to actually look behind it. So he there are a lot of old stories in the old testament that flash out the meaning of these lines. Want one of the ideas that lurks underneath these lines is that god is akin to that which confronts the unknown and carves it into pieces and makes the world out of its pieces. And i think part of the reason why translation gets so ated is partly that is how human beings created our world. Like we went out beyond the confines of our safe spaces, let's say our safe spaces defined by by the tree or defined by the fire. We actively voyaged outward to the places that we were afraid of