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Mesopotamia/Enuma Elish

Marduk and his ZigguratE Temen An Ki

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Divine Designs in …

• Mesopotamia

• Offer gods food• Work gods lands• Build gods houses• Have spade and basket put in their hands• Rites, ceremonies, and services of the gods• Labor forever so the gods go free• Faithful service so the gods have rest

Myth:• A fictitious narrative involving supernatural

persons and embodying popular ideas on natural phenomena

• The spoken counterpart of ritual action

Etymology

• The linguistic background of a word

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Hesiod s Cosmogony

Persephone

Artemis of the Ephesians

• Goddess of fertility

• whom all Asia and the world worship (Acts 19:27)

• A form of the Asian mother-goddess (Cybele)