Politics · 10 · The Creator

Marduk's weapons, the king's weapons

Babylonian myths and rituals linked Marduk's weapons against Tiamat to the symbolic weapons handed to Babylon's kings before their campaigns.

Myth as military ideology.

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Beneath reality, the epic taught, lies the corpse of a goddess slain when she became too powerful, just as kings carve borders by force.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 158

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