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Establishment of cosmos by Bel (1)

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

Text
Berossus, Babyloniaca F1:
But Bel, who is to be translated (into Greek) as Zeus, divided the darkness in half and separated earth and sky from each other and ordered the universe. But the creatures died because they were unable to endure the force of the light. When Bel saw that the land was barren and fruitless, he ordered one of the gods to take off his own head and mix earth with the blood flowing from it and to form men and beasts able to endure the air.

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

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 15Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.

Amar Annus


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