Enuma Elish Analysis

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In these readings, there seems to be a repeating pattern of looking at the creation of God and the one and only God. In the reading of Enuma Elish, the story of Marduk of Mesopotamia. In the story, the woman runs away from the serpents to Marduk and attacks him. Marduk then attacks her and he has his victory. The serpent then taunts him into battle. At the end of the war, Marduk uses the spoils to build a new world. He crushes her skull and uses the blood and her body to make heaven and earth. He then assigns the members of the assembly as constellations to mark each season of the year.
In the reading of Armstrong, there was a hymn called the Mesopotamian creation. It was describing the creation and evolution hymn that describes the evolution

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