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ToggleBabylonian - Akkadian - Assyrian mythology
The mythology Mesopotamian refers to Babylonian mythology, Akkadian mythology and Assyrian mythology on the language side Semites.
Mythology Mesopotamian designates all of the myths known mainly from Mesopotamian literature, which generally serve to answer questions explaining the mysteries of the world which surrounded the scribes of the Mesopotamia antique.
The myths mesopotamians have had a long and complex history, for more than two millennia, marked in particular by the cultural preponderance of the Sumerians in the 3rde millennium av. AD, subsequently supplanted by Akkadian language speakers (Babylonians above all) who took up the Sumerian heritage and continued the development of Mesopotamian mythology.
This is therefore not a uniform whole: there is no dogma, and certain questions may have given rise to myths giving different answers. It reflects at least in part all of the beliefs of the Ancient Mesopotamians about the cosmos and the world around them, or in any case it is the best way to approach it. But the myths are repeatedly rethought and recomposed by the milieu of Mesopotamian literate elites according to shifting ideological objectives, often referring to political thought which is essential to understanding many of them.
Babylonian - Akkadian - Assyrian mythology (texts)
- The First Tablet: Of the Tyranny of Gilgamish, and the Creation of Enkidu
- The Second Tablet: Of the Meeting of Gilgamish and Enkidu
- The Third Tablet: The Expedition to the Forest of Cedars against Humbaba
- The Fourth Tablet: The Arrival at the Gate of the Forest
- The Fifth Tablet: Of the Fight with Humbaba
- The Sixth Tablet: Of the Goddess Ishtar, Who Fell In Love With the Hero After His Exploit Against Humbaba
- The Seventh Tablet: The Death of Enkidu
- The Eighth Tablet: Of the Mourning of Gilgamish, and What Came of It
- The Ninth Tablet: Gilgamish In Terror of Death Seeks Eternal Life
- The Tenth Tablet: How Gilgamish Reached Uta-Napishtim
- The Eleventh Tablet: The Flood
- The Twelfth Tablet: Gilgamish, In Despair, Inquires of the Dead
- The First Tablet
- The Second Tablet
- The Third Tablet
- The Fourth Tablet
- The Fifth Tablet
- The Sixth Tablet
- The Seventh Tablet
- I. Another Version of the Dragon-Myth
- II. A Reference to the Creation of the Cattle and the Beasts of the Field
- III. A reference to the Creation of the Moon and the Sun
- IV. An Address to the River of Creation
- V. Another Version of the Creation of the World by Marduk
- Chapter I. The Races and Early Civilization of Babylonia
- Chapter II. The Land of Rivers and the God of the Deep
- Chapter III. Rival Pantheons and Representative Deities
- Chapter IV. Demons, Fairies, and Ghosts
- Chapter V. Myths of Tammuz and Ishtar
- Chapter VI. Wars of the City States of Sumer and Akkad
- Chapter VII. Creation Legend: Merodach the Dragon Slayer
- Chapter VIII. Deified Heroes: Etana and Gilgamesh
- Chapter IX. Deluge Legend, the Island of the Blessed, and Hades
- Chapter X. Buildings and Laws and Customs of Babylon
- Chapter XI. The Golden Age of Babylonia
- Chapter XII. Rise of the Hittites, Mitannians, Kassites, Hyksos, and Assyrians
- Chapter XIII. Astrology and Astronomy
- Chapter XIV. Ashur the National God of Assyria
- Chapter XV. Conflicts for Trade and Supremacy
- Chapter XVI. Race Movements that Shattered Empires
- Chapter XVII. The Hebrews in Assyrian History
- Chapter XVIII. The Age of Semiramis
- Chapter XIX. Assyria's Age of Splendor
- Chapter XX. The Last Days of Assyria and Babylonia
- Chapter I. The Discovery of the Genesis Legends
- Chapter II. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature
- Chapter III. Chaldean Legends Transmitted Through Berosus and Other Ancient Authors
- Chapter IV. Babylonian Mythology
- Chapter V. Babylonian Legend of the Creation
- Chapter IV. Other Babylonian Accounts of the Creation
- Chapter VII. The Sin of the God Zu
- Chapter VIII. The Exploits of Lubara
- Chapter IX. Babylonian Fables
- Chapter X. Fragments of Miscellaneous Texts
- Chapter XI. The Izdubar Legends
- Chapter XII. Meeting of Heabani and Izdubar
- Chapter XIII. Destruction of the Tyrant Humbaba
- Chapter XIV. The Adventures of Ishtar
- Chapter XV. Illness and Wanderings of Izdubar
- Chapter XVI. The Story of the Flood and Conclusion