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[In the British Museum tablets lines 63-108 are either wanting entirely, or are too broken to translate, and…

Date of account: Ancient material presented in a work published 1921
Source: The Babylonian Legends of the Creation
Reference: The Babylonian Legends of the Creation · selected passage 9
Rights: public_domain
Language: English translation and study of Akkadian and Sumerian source material
Translation: E. A. Wallis Budge
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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[In the British Museum tablets lines 63-108 are either wanting entirely, or are too broken to translate, and the last 130 lines of the Berlin fragment are much mutilated

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[In the British Museum tablets lines 63-108 are either wanting entirely, or are too broken to translate, and the last 130 lines of the Berlin fragment are much mutilated. The fragments of text show that Ea waged war against Apsu and Mummu. Ea recited an incantation which caused Apsu to fall asleep. He then "loosed the joints" of Mummu, who in some way suffered, but he was strong enough to attack Ea when he turned to deal with Apsu. Ea overcame both his adversaries and divided Apsu into chambers and laid fetters upon him. In one of the chambers of Apsu a god was begotten and born. According to the Ninevite theologians Ea begat by his wife, who is not named, his son Marduk, and according to the theologians of the City of Ashur, Lakhmu begat by his wife Lakhamu a son who is no other than Anshar, or Ashur. A nurse was appointed to rear him, and he grew up a handsome child, to the great delight of his father.

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