The Babylonian Legends of the Creation And the Fight Between Bel and the Dragon (With 25 illustrations)- Annotated Mythology and Life

This book retold the seven tablets of creation concerning the creation of the world and of mankind. It contains huge information, notes, explanations and the translation of the Seven Tablets.

A perusal of the texts of the Seven Tablets of Creation, which King was enabled, through the information contained in them, to arrange for the first time in their proper sequence, shows that the main object of the Legend was the glorification of the god Marduk, the son of Ea (Enki), as the conqueror of the dragon Tiâmat, and not the narration of the story of the creation of the heavens, and earth and man. The Creation properly speaking, is only mentioned as an exploit of Marduk in the Sixth Tablet, and the Seventh Tablet is devoted wholly to the enumeration of the honorific titles of Marduk.