Talk:Babylonian mythology

message: *Delete. Despite all the pretty lines, this is nothing but a list of links.  RickK 22:54, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)
* Merge and Redirect to Sumerian mythology gK 23:59, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Vfd.

message: ...the article does not provide much information, except referring to other articles. The article Mesopotamian mythology has the same contents as would be expected in Babylonian mythology. There is little justification in keeping both. --JFK 19:14, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  16 months later... 

message: Sumerian Mythology is so dissimilar to Semitic Mythologies that sprang from it.  If it werent', i doubt i'd have a degree in assyriology... (e. semitic religions were my focus).  It would be like merging christianity with judasim on wikipedia.  Despite similarities, they are really quite different religions/mythologies.  And like christianity say, the semitic versions of the mythologies change dramatically from the earliest attestation until their engulfment by persians, greeks, romans, and so on.  
This article should, if anything, be expanded to contain that information and distinct semitic character, and the sumerian article should likewise be expanded to contain that distinct sumerian character, and the "mesopotamian mythology" article should simply refer to those two articles.  Perhaps yet more articles on West Semitic religion and its inclusion/influence on mesopotamian religion.  The cult of Hadad for instance!
But this is just one assyriologists opinion.
Who will step up to make the article worthy of its continued separate existance!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.52.182.179 (talk) 06:43, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  a different view 

message: I'm not sure why this tree is published and live as it is clearly wrong in many obvious ways. For example, Ea is Enki, yet listed as two people, while his half brother and sister - Ninhursag(f) or Enlil(m) - who made up the ruling three with Enki/Ea, are not listed at all. This is so far off being ready, it's virtually pointless it being live, sorry.
If you like, I can create a more complete (or at least accurate and useful) tree, but it won't be limited to just Babylonian, as Babylonian, Akkadian and Sumerian (and even Egyptian) have such a major cross over its more useful to show them all together. 
Either way, the current one needs to come down. Guy.shrimpton (talk) 12:26, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Serious concerns about the VfD

message: I understand that there are variations in texts that I may be unaware of, but if we are going to describe texts such as the enuma elish, can we stick to the story, and reference what you are talking about? I mean really. The King translation of the Enuma Elish is outdated as well, and I would recommend that translation to no one. Its obsolete.
Also, some of what the user posted and attributed to the king translation just isn't in the link/translation they referenced. Also, if I have any errors, do help me by correcting me, as I am trying to clean up the mythology of the ancient near east's articles, they are in serious need of help.
Also, after the point where Anshar sends Anu and Ea to pacify Tiamat, I had to use the King translation even though I didn't want to. So if anyone could help me out and fix the second part if any of it was inaccurate, it would be greatly appreciated. Abdishtar (talk) 22:46, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help: Anyone who has read the book outside google books: Treasures of Darkness by thorkild Jacobsen 

message: Shouldn't this be merged with the "Assyro-Babylonian" religion page? 121.223.67.39 (talk) 09:00, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Assyro-Babylonian?

message: What do the "...."'s mean on some of the entries? Unknown names or something else? Anyway, it should be included in the article --210.14.96.246 (talk) 08:30, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further Explanation