Week 04
332 words by dwalker4
I made comments on the following people’s postings:
Christian Cade
Kimberly Granvel
Brittney Williams
Gerald Smith
Henry Tran
Stephen Becnel
David Roy
Janelle Snoddy
Andrea Rance
Thao Nguyen
Both the Enuma Elish and the Book of Genesis are creation stories. Creation stories exist because people like concrete things, humans are curious and like explanations. Creation stories help validate present social and political order. The Enuma Elish is a Babylonian Creation story. The creation story, Enuma Elish, was written on seven tablets. Seven is a significant number because it took seven days to create the world in the creation story in the Book of Genesis. Both stories begin with there being nothing in existence. In Genesis, God spoke everything into existence; on day one- He created light, day two-firmanent, day three-dry land/vegetation, day four-luminaries, day five-fish/birds, day six-animals/humans and day seven-Sabbath. However, in Enuma Elish it took fighting and killings to create the world. Marduk murdered Tiamat and divided her body into two parts one part used for the sky and the other for the earth. Both creation stories used dirt to create humans; the Enuma Elish told of humans being created from dirt and the arteries of those killed, but in Genesis man was created by dirt and God breathed into man’s nostrils. In Genesis, God is self-existing whereas, in the Enuma Elish gods and goddesses were created by the mingling of waters. The creation story in Genesis is written in verses and the Enuma Elish creation story was written on tablets.
The Tiglath-Pileser principle is when you create a story from the most impossible thing that could have happened. It was an exaggeration of the truth that Tiglath-Pileser, King Assyria, used to cause fear in the people.The king would boast about his accomplishments on the battle field. He may have conquered land, but his stories would be a bit drawn out.