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Epics
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Texts
Erra and IshumTablet I of the Babylonian poem of divine plague and devastation. The god Erra, goaded by his Seven warrior attendants, rises from sloth to fury, confronts Marduk in Esagil, and deceives the king of the gods into vacating Babylon. Standard Babylonian Akkadian, ca. 8th century BCE. Good Works Translation from the Akkadian.The AtrahasisThe Babylonian creation and flood epic — humanity made from clay and divine blood, the wrath of Enlil, and the survival of Atrahasis through the great flood. Good Works Translation from Akkadian, ca. 1700 BCE.The Enuma ElishThe Babylonian creation epic — seven cuneiform tablets telling how Marduk slew chaos and shaped the world from her body.The Epic of GilgameshThe oldest epic poem in human history — a Sumerian king's quest for immortality, rendered from cuneiform tablets in the British Museum.The Seven Tablets of Creation — L.W. KingL.W. King's authoritative 1902 edition of the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation myth, with introduction and related texts from cuneiform tablets in the British Museum.