From: HOLFELTZ@LSTC2VM.stortek.com
Newsgroups: alt.mythology
Subject: Re: marduk
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:23:20 GMT
Organization: StorageTek SW Engineering

In article <1992Aug13.194334.23684@honte.uleth.ca>
std_beaulieu@hg.uleth.ca writes:
 
>
>just following the discussion on Marduk and planetary orbits et all,
>and I too appear to have a problem. The epic: the Enuma Elish outlines
>the creation myth of Sumeria and in great detail describes the
>overthrow of Tiamat by the warrior god Marduk. This epic, in detailing
>how Tiamat's body was apportioned after she was vanquished tell us
>that her forehead etc became the firmanent et al. In short earth
>as we know it was cretade from her body as were those things that we
>now observe in the heaven.s
 
She was split by one of the winds of Marduk.  The splinter pieces became
the astroid belt (bracelet of heaven in the Bible)  The rest spin out
of orbit, inward towards the sun.  With its mass/speed/etc a new
orbit was established ... in the present earth orbit ... Tiamat's greater
remains became the EARTH.  This accounts for the differences in the crust
of the earth and other anolmies.
 
>Marduk is not a planet, he is a usurper. He replaces not only Tiamat
 
As an intruder to the solar system, his destroying tiamat, set the final
(as we know them now) orbits of all the planets, including but not
limited to the NEW earth, pluto, who used to be a companion to one
of the other Gods (planets).  This is how he usurped the "tablets
of destiny (as relates to the heavens).  This is the planetary God
Marduk, is an intirely different things than the antrophological
God who wreaked havic in the later Babylonian pantheon of Gods.
 
>(the female principle), but also the "father god" much as Zeus does
>Cronus in the Theogany.
>It is also interesting to note that we have a copy of the Enuma Elish
>that appears to predate 1750 BCE slightly. The reign of Hammurabi was
>underway in Babylon. Hammurabi clearly identifies himself with Marduk
>and consigns the gods of the other Sumerian/Babylonian cities states
>to an inferior status. The epic specifically appoints Babylon as the
>holy city, and the epic itself was reenacted for 10 days every year in
>a huge pageant known as the Akitu festival. In this ritual both Marduk/
 
Actually 12 days!  Then you should also know, the reign of individual
Gods within the 12, with their ranks changed often.  ANU=60, Enlil=50,
Enki=40 etc.  Incidently, their were 12 members of the ruling pantheon
of Gods, and so there were 12 members in the creation of the solar system
and this is why it took 12 days.  Strangely enough, thoughout alot of
religions, 12 plays an important part, as well as in our every day lives:
12" in a foot, 12 hours of light, 12 hours of dark etc.
 
>Hammurabi are reconfirmed as divine kings, all other dieties were "barged"
>into Babylon to pay homage, in essence, the epic was renacted i almost all
>its detail.
 
The creation of the known solar system was re-enacted!
 
>It has been speculated, and I would be inclined to concur, that Hammurabi
>made excellent poltical use of an epic that could be used as a basis for
>divine status for the Kings of Babylon....but as his line was new, so too
>did he need a new god. An interesting problem....he may have had to redefine
>the myth only slightly...by adding Marduk, the warrior god.
 
Read more about the wars of the Gods, watch who rises and falls.
 
 
A poor Wayfaring Stranger [some say, a Strange One] in a strange land,
 
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