Mesopotamian mythology refers to the myths, religious texts, and other literature that comes from the region of ancient Mesopotamia which is a historical...

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drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primeval waters which appear in certain creation myths, as the flood waters are described as a measure...

based upon earlier Mesopotamian myths,[citation needed] in particular that of the creation myth, the Garden of Eden, the flood myth, the Tower of Babel...

simply taking the text as a representative of Mesopotamian creation myths. Enuma Elish references multiple myths and other texts, and epithets usually attested...

Neo-Assyrian hegemony. Numerous Mesopotamian myths (and one Egyptian myth) are reflected in the primeval history. The myth of Atrahasis, for example, was...

of Akkad around 2350 BC, characterized the subsequent 2,000 years of Mesopotamian history, marked by the succession of kingdoms and empires such as the...

13 April 2021, retrieved 4 August 2018 McCall, Henrietta (1990), Mesopotamian Myths, The Legendary Past, Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press,...

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The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erṣetu), was the lowermost part of the...

companion. The authors of the Hebrew creation narrative borrowed themes from Mesopotamian mythology, but adapted them to their unique belief in one God. The first...

cycle of myths describing conflicts between Kumarbi and his son Teššub and the Song of Release. Hurrian influences on Ugaritic and Mesopotamian religion...

historical importance as part of the Fertile Crescent region, where Mesopotamian civilization first emerged. The Tigris–Euphrates Basin is shared between...

The Mesopotamian Marshes, also known as the Iraqi Marshes, are a wetland area located in Southern Iraq and southwestern Iran as well as partially in northern...

Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta is a legendary Sumerian account, preserved in early post-Sumerian copies, composed in the Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st...

one side of the ziggurat or by a spiral ramp from base to summit. The Mesopotamian ziggurats were not places for public worship or ceremonies. They were...

of this text made him propose that this fragment belongs to a Mesopotamian flood myth, perhaps Atrahasis or Tablet IX of Gilgamesh, which has a version...

Atra-Hasis tablets include both a cosmological creation myth and one of three surviving Babylonian flood myths. The name "Atra-Hasis" also appears, as a king of...

first permanent structures were built) to the 6th century BC. Among the Mesopotamian architectural accomplishments are the development of urban planning,...

The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of three Mesopotamian Flood Myths alongside the one including in the Eridu...

sole owner of Eanna in the myths about Enmerkar and Lugalbanda, other legendary kings of Uruk commonly referenced in Mesopotamian literature. A mythological...

Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave is a Sumerian mythological account. It is one of the four known stories that belong to the same cycle describing conflicts...

numbers, many with complex and detailed scenes despite their small size. Mesopotamian art survives in a number of forms: cylinder seals, relatively small figures...

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divine beings, the gods. This pattern continued to influence regional Mesopotamian myths. Thus, in the later Akkadian Enuma Elish, creation was seen as the...

narrative. The coat is covered in images which refer back to ancient Mesopotamian myths, contributing to the way in which Mann associates Joseph with characters...

and Adonis to be derived from a Levantine version of the earlier Mesopotamian myth of Inanna (Ishtar) and Dumuzid (Tammuz). In late 19th and early 20th...

dispute as to whether Kasdim in fact means Chaldean or refers to the south Mesopotamian Kaldu.[citation needed] During a period of weakness in the East Semitic-speaking...

millennium BC, and soon after in various parts of the Near-East. An ancient Mesopotamian poem gives the first known story of the invention of writing: Because...

National Center for Science Education. Retrieved 2022-06-07. "The Flood: Mesopotamian Archaeological Evidence | National Center for Science Education". National...