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Primordial battle and creation of man (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery


 		Keywords
Berossus
creation of mankind
creation of the universe
Period
3rd century BCE
Hellenistic Empires 		Channel
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

Text
Berossus, Babyloniaca F1:
And when everything had coalesced in this way, Bel rose up and split the woman in two. One half of her he made earth and the other sky; and he destroyed the creatures in her. But this, he says, is to be interpreted as an allegory about nature. For when everything was watery and creatures had been born in it, this god removed his own head, and the blood that flowed out the other gods mixed with earth and moulded human beings. For this reason, they are both intelligent and share in divine wisdom.

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Berossus, Babyloniaca F1

Bibliography

Adler and Tuffin 2002, 39Adler, W. and P. Tuffin. The Chronography of George Synkellos. A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation translated with introduction and notes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Burstein 1978, 15Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.

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Cf. Creation of man (1)
Cf. Creation of man (2)
Cf. Creation of man (3)

Amar Annus


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