The beings who had backed her now fled. After walloping the old woman in this fashion, and fencing in her supporters, Merodach was tired. And there is another curious thing about it. The worst thing that I can see in her behavior is, that she brought forth such a brood of bad children. Here the story ends.
Nothing is said about the creation of man, of water animals, or of vegetation.
Neither is Merodach credited with the creation of the sun, the moon or the stars. The heaven and the earth were in existence before any of the gods were born, and of course no god created them. Certainly no sensible man who read it and believed it could ever afterward offer incense or prayer to any one of the brutal gang. This is not all. I scarcely think that the craziest of the critics would claim that this satire on the Babylonian gods was written before the days of Moses.