So Ea went back to Marduk and let him know that if Marduk defeated Tiamat he would be the head god forever. Marduk took a bow and arrows, his thunder club, his storm net, and his trademark – a lightning dagger – and set out to defeat Tiamat. Marduk was faster and shot an arrow down her throat killing her.

Like Zeus, Marduk is a sky god, and is of a younger generation of gods. They both battle to create order, and both overthrow their parents to triumph. The Babylonians intended that the Enuma Elish serve as a song of praise for the king of the gods.

Sometimes called Bel, Marduk is begotten by his father, Ea, and borne by his mother, Damkina, inside the dwelling Apsu. From his birth, Marduk is superior to all other gods. He has four all-perceiving eyes, four enormous ears, and lips that blaze forth fire. As a deity, he is associated with storms.

Marduk, in Mesopotamian religion, the chief god of the city of Babylon and the national god of Babylonia; as such, he was eventually called simply Bel, or Lord.

Babylon has replaced Nippur as the dwelling place of the gods. Meanwhile, Marduk fulfills an earlier promise to provide provisions for the junior gods if he gains victory as their supreme leader. He then creates humans from the blood of Qingu, the slain and rebellious consort of Tiamat.

Marduk is the hero of Enūma eliš (“When above …”), the Babylonian creation myth. Marduk was accepted into the Assyrian royal pantheon after Aššur and other important gods.

Nebuchadnezzar II is known as the greatest king of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia. He conquered Syria and Palestine and made Babylon a splendid city. He destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem and initiated the Babylonian Captivity of the Jewish population.

Tiamat is the Mesopotamian goddess associated with primordial chaos and the salt sea best known from the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish.

Anu, (Akkadian), Sumerian An, Mesopotamian sky god and a member of the triad of deities completed by Enlil and Ea (Enki). Like most sky gods, Anu, although theoretically the highest god, played only a small role in the mythology, hymns, and cults of Mesopotamia.

Anu, Anum, or Ilu (Akkadian: ??AN), also called An (Sumerian: ? AN, from ? an “Sky”, “Heaven”), is the divine personification of the sky, supreme god, and ancestor of all the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion.

Click image to enlarge. The Torah — the first five books of the Hebrew Bible — was traditionally held to be the work of Moses, as dictated by God. The Hebrew of the text includes terms that were developed long after Moses’ death. Moses’ death is included in Deuteronomy.

The Greek word Pentateuch (“five books or a bookcase or volume of five”) refers to the first five books of the Bible; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

The Torah (or Pentateuch, as biblical scholars sometimes call it) is the collective name for the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

The meaning of “Torah” is often restricted to signify the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), also called the Law (or the Pentateuch, in Christianity). These are the books traditionally ascribed to Moses, the recipient of the original revelation from God on Mount Sinai.