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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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List of Books Quoted or Mentioned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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MYTHOLOGICAL TEXTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| I. | The Creation | 3 | |
| 1. | The Story of Creation | 3 | |
| 2. | The Babylonian Cosmogony according to Damascius | 44 | |
| 3. | A Cosmology in a Ritual | 44 | |
| 4. | The Creation of the Moon (and the Sun) | 46 | |
| 5. | Another Version of the Creation of the World by Marduk (So-called "Bilingual of Creation") | 47 | |
| 6. | The Creation of Cattle and Beasts | 50 | |
| 7. | An Incantation against Toothache | 52 | |
| 8. | The Assyrian Cosmology | 53 | |
| 1. Assyrian Creation Text | 54 | ||
| 2. Ashur the Creator | 57 | ||
| 3. An Assyrian Building Inscription with Cosmological Material | 58 | ||
| 9. | An Address to the River of Creation | 60 | |
| II. | The Dragon and Demons | 60 | |
| 1. | Ellil and the Labbu | 60 | |
| 2. | The Legend of the Seven Evil Demons | 63 | |
| III. | The Myth of Adapa | 67 | |
| IV. | Primitive Revelation and the Early Kings | 76 | |
| 1. | Primitive Revelation (Berossos) | 76 | |
| 2. | The Early Kings | 78 | |
| V. | The Gilgamesh Epic and the Story of the Deluge | 80 | |
| 1. | The Babylonian Flood Story | 90 | |
| 2. | Another Recension of the Deluge Story | 103 | |
| 3. | An Ancient Babylonian Deluge Fragment (Morgan) | 104 | |
| 4. | Another Ancient Babylonian Deluge Fragment (Hilprecht) | 108 | |
| 5. | The Babylonian Deluge according to Berossos | 109 | |
| 6. | Destruction by Fire | 112 | |
| VI. | Ea and Atrakhasis | 113 | |
| VII. | Ishtar's Descent to Hades | 121 | |
| VIII. | Nergal and Ereshkigal | 131 | |
| IX. | The Legend of Sargon, King of Agade | 135 | |
| HYMNS AND PRAYERS | 139 | ||
| 1. | Hymn to Sin, the Moon God | 141 | |
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