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The Babylonian sky god, also rendered in the transcript as Murdoch/BL, who kills Tiamat and establishes the new order.
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Marduk
The Babylonian sky god, also rendered in the transcript as Murdoch/BL, who kills Tiamat and establishes the new order.
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Glossary
The elected champion who defeats Tiamat and creates the ordered universe from her body.
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In Jiang's reading, Enuma Elish encodes the sky-god inversion by having Marduk kill the mother goddess Tiamat and build the ordered world from her divided body.
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Marduk's new order proclaims values of struggle, exploitation, toil, control, and irrigation, replacing a mother-goddess religion of balance and harmony.
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Babylon's internal religious-political conflict makes Cyrus's reputation for mercy strategically powerful before conquest.
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Marduk defeats Tiamat as a water serpent and uses her body to create sky, continents, moons, stars, and the universe.
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Jiang defines Mesopotamian creative destruction as the belief that to create something new one must destroy the old; Tiamat represents the old that must be destroyed so a new civilization can be built.
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Jiang says the Enuma Elish embeds three mythologies: Tiamat and Apsu creating the world, the gods inhabiting it, and Marduk creating the universe through victory over Tiamat.
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Jiang explains the transition from an egalitarian agricultural society to urban patriarchy through mythology: Tiamat is coded as chaos and Marduk as order, so destroying the old is justified as creating peace and order.
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"...mythology of the mother goddess. Now the sky god, who is Marduk here, kills the mother goddess to create the world, okay? A process..."
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"Now what happens afterwards is really interesting because after he kills Tiamat, the mother goddess, he takes her body, and then from her body,..."
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"Okay? Fresh water, of course, is the river. Salt water is the ocean. Okay? When they come together, they create all possible life, including..."
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"...doing this to the mother goddess. Okay? So not only is Marduk proclaiming a new order, but he's also proclaiming new values. New values..."
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"...The king wants to change the official god of Babylon from Marduk to Sin because the king wants to establish his own religious authority...."
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"He warns. She warns her children. The gods get together. And they kill Apsu. Tiamat is enraged by the death of her consort. And..."
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"He creates the entire universe basically. From the body of Tiamat. After that. The gods all decide to rest in peace. But they need..."
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"But here the value that is most prominent in Mesopotamia is bravery or strength. Okay. Not cleverness. There's no trickery going on. It's just..."
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"...go to war. And then from the victory of this war, Marduk creates the universe, okay? So basically, we're seeing three different mythologies embedded..."
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"...okay? And then, finally, you have the battle between Tiamat and Marduk. And this shows the battle between the old society with the new..."
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"...concept. So in Egypt, they have Ra. In Babylon, they have Marduk. In Greece, they have Zeus. In Rome, they have Jupiter, right? And..."
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"...the messengers. All right. Let's continue. All right. So, now that Marduk has built this world, he's like, you know what? I'm tired and..."
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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