HIST 025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Enlil, Enûma Eliš
29 May 2020
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All natural phenomena is dominated by gods and spirits. Someone stubbed their toes, god did it. If war happened, there is a war amongst the gods. Story about god/men that have some essential truths about the god and how god interact with a hero. Hero may be a compilation of people. Message of the story contains an absolute truth, which makes the whole story true. A purely fictitious narrative usually involving supernatural phenomena embodying some popular idea, etc. (dictionary) Once was far more important than these definition would lead us to assume. Explaining how the world came into existence. Important and influenced what men would think/organize/act. Mesopotamian myths were pessimistic and had negative world views. Written down in 1800 bce but probably existed in earlier traditions in oral. In the beginning on big ocean, there were only 2 gods/goddesses who went into the ocean where the other gods came into play who created land and everything.
