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Enūma Eliš has about a thousand lines and is recorded in Akkadian on seven clay tablets, each holding between 115 and 170 lines of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script. Most of Tablet V has never been recovered, but, aside from this lacuna, the text is almost complete.

Over the seven tablets, it describes the creation of the world, a battle between gods focused on the offering to Marduk, the creation of man destined for the service of the Mesopotamian deities, and it ends with a long passage praising Marduk. The rise of Marduk is generally viewed to have started from the Second Dynasty of Isin, triggered by the return of the statue of Marduk from Elam by Nebuchadnezzar I, although a late Kassite date is also sometimes proposed. It may have been recited during the Akitu festival.

Some late Assyrian versions replace Marduk with Ashur.

This line “Some late Assyrian versions replace Marduk with Ashur” is really important. Marduk became the God of Babylon and Ashur became the God of Assur. 

This is not news in the Archeological world. Assyriologists are well aware of the “Battle of Good and Evil” was actually the Battle between Marduk and Asha.”

Which is which is really the question one needs to ask… only… Marduk took on 50 names, and eventually blended his name into Modern Religions. 

Asha is Synonymous with Wisdom. Which is why we have “Ash” Wednesdays, to represent Humility with the 12 Ethics. Ash = Wisdom. 

It is not a secret that Assur, Assyria and Babylon, Babylonia warred with Marduk against Ashur. 

Substantial evidence exists that shows how Marduk was appropriated and then assimilated into the role Abrahamic god.

Marduk was called “Lord” (Bel) by the 1st Century BCE.

In many Biblical texts, the Abrahamic God took on two personalities : One like Marduk and one like Ashur.

Zoroastrians, Christ, Hinduism, and Buddhism all refer to the Ethics that are modelled after Asha (AKA Assure or Anu).

In other cases Inanna (AKA Ishtar) is also referenced and lived alongside Asha/Anu.