Enuma Elish is an ancient Babylonian creation story that explains the creation of humanity and the world we live in today. Like many of you who actually read Enuma Elish, it was a difficult challenge to read and analyze, assuming you're like me with my reading level. If that's the case, please don't be ashamed for using some type of outside source to understand this crazy myth. Lets be honest, those seven tablets didn't fair so well as time passed over the centuries since much of the text is missing. Like many stories of Gods in each type of civilization, they tend to have some form of immoral behavior and in Enuma Elish, it would be war or killing in this matter. Since humanity was created from the blood of the rebellious god Kingu so we would be the slaves of gods. Wouldn't that make us in some way as demigods as the Greeks put it? For me I don't think that god(s) would create us as slaves. I feel like the Babylonian tale is miss understood in a way since again much of the text is missing from the tablets and that we missed out on some of the life greatest secrets. Some shows like Ancient Aliens on the History Channel explain the possibility that ancient cultures experienced extraterrestrial activities which would have explained human and God relationships, and how impossible structures like the Egyptian Pyramids where constructed. So it might be possible that the Babylonian myth is an actual creation story of how aliens created humans. Something to think about?
What do you think? Did you fully understand the Babylonian myth? Are God's aliens? Do you think humans are created to serve God as slaves? Are you a Mac or a PC? Please leave a comment!
References:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htm
http://shawcss.tripod.com/REL101/cosmogony/enuma.htm
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