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spin · 01-09-2004, 01:47 AM

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Originally posted by Marduk
"if Marduk didn't get to Babylon until 700 BCE"

Marduk wasn't that important a deity till later (OK maybe my date of 700 BCE is a little off) Ea Anu & Enlil were the traditional heavyweights. Or so I thought

Anyway I don't even remember his name coming up in any major works like the Epic of Gilgamesh or the Atrahasis, only the Enuma Elish, which I thought was a later addition, of course my memory might be going to.

Remember the epic of Gilgamesh is relatively old and Atrahasis is older, written before and during the Kassite period.

Forget the literary works and find out why there were kings of Babylon who chose to show the importance of Marduk by including him in their throne names.

spin

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