The Twelve Tribes of Israel

Judah is a lion's whelp from the prey, my son. He couched as a lion, and as an old lion who shall rouse him up. The sceptre shall not depart from judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet until shiloh come. And unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Joseph is a fruitful bough by a well whose branches run over the wall. But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty god of jacob. So that what we see here is an echo, in some sense, of what happens in the mesopotamian creation story...