Enuma Elish and the Theogony

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. been busy, but that's now why I'm here today. I'm here to compare the two ancient creation stories in the Enuma Elish and the Theogony.

Let's start with analyzing the similarities. In both the Theogony and the Enuma Elish, they start with these giant elemental gods. and they come up with the lower gods and eventually demi-gods. this can be seen on pages 6-8 in the Theogony, and pages 228-232 in the Eluma Elish. Next is that a demi-god takes over as ruler of earth. In the Theogony, Zeus overthrows his father and gains rule over the other gods, and in the Eluma Elish, Marduk over throws Tiamat. That reminds me of another similarity. the gods fight and tear each other down. this is important to keep in mind, for the gods in both stories created man.

Next are the dissimilarities. The larges is the definition of immortal. Greeks believed that immortals could not be killed, but the Babylonians believed they could, and that they did kill each other. Also, power was different. Greek gods had power through "things", but Babylonian gods used "things" and spells. they used their words just as much, and if not then more, as they used"things." Two examples are Zeus's famous lightning bold, and Marduk's spoken power along with his lightning bolt. when Marduk spoke, his words were law. It's interesting to see how these two creation stories related to each other, but were not the same.