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Proposed edits to Wikipedia's Enûma Eliš Class
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Reading List
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 * 1) Wikipedia. Enûma Eliš..
 * 2) Wikipedia. Tiamat.
 * 3) Fleischmann, T. (January, 2015). Enuma elish, the Babylonian Creation Myth.
 * 4) Stefan Stenudd. (2007). Enuma Elish 2 The Babylonian Creation Myth.
 * 5) http://shawcss.tripod.com/REL101/cosmogony/enuma.htm

Original
They persuade Tiamat to take revenge for the death of her husband, Apsû. Her power grows, and some of the gods join her. She creates 11 monsters (Bašmu, Ušumgallu, Mušmaḫḫū, Ugallu, Umū dabrūtu, Kulullû, Kusarikku, Scorpion man, ?, ?, ?) to help her win the battle and elevates Kingu, her new husband, to "supreme dominion." A lengthy description of the other gods' inability to deal with the threat follows. Marduk offers to save the gods if he is appointed as their leader and allowed to remain so even after the threat passes. When the gods agree to Marduk's conditions he is selected as their champion against Tiamat, and becomes very powerful. Marduk challenges Tiamat to combat and destroys her. He then rips her corpse into two halves with which he fashions the earth and the skies. Marduk then creates the calendar, organizes the planets and stars, and regulates the moon, the sun, and weather.[4]

Revised
They persuade Tiamat to take revenge for the death of her husband, Apsû. Her power grows, and some of the gods join her. She creates 11 monsters ( Bašmu, Ušumgallu, Mušmaḫḫū, Ugallu, Umū dabrūtu, Kulullû, Kusarikku, Girtablullû,  Mušḫuššu, Laḫmu, Uridimmu) to help her win the battle and elevates Kingu, her new husband, to "supreme dominion." A lengthy description of the other gods' inability to deal with the threat follows. Marduk offers to save the gods if he is appointed as their leader and allowed to remain so even after the threat passes. When the gods agree to Marduk's conditions he is selected as their champion against Tiamat, and becomes very powerful. Marduk challenges Tiamat to combat and destroys her. He then rips her corpse into two halves with which he fashions the earth and the skies. Marduk then creates the calendar, organizes the planets and stars, and regulates the moon, the sun, and weather.[4]

Original Contribution
According to scholars Enuma Elish has a major theme of supremacy of the gods and that humanity’s purpose is to serve them. In the text, Marduk creates humanity from Tiamat’s second husband to serve the gods and as T. Fleischmann says in his article Enuma elish, the Babylonian Creation Myth, “Marduk, then is the greatest of the gods” and that “it is the duty of humans to serve him for all time.” Humanity’s slavery wasn’t viewed as one sided as it might seem. In the article Exploring a Myth a scholar discusses the role of Marduk’s worship as the supreme god with the rise of the Babylonian empire as a power.