As I said in my first writing about the two creation stories, the creation epic from the Mesopotamian culture relies solely on faith and answering unknown questions. This piece has the largest difference in the three creation stories, yet it still has the basic Supreme-Being-creates-Earth storyline.

 The major difference was that the Earth and the heavens were created out of a battle, rather than a higher power wanting to create man in its image. The only deduction that I can make about this culture from the story is the large amount of violence that occurred during that time. The part about Marduk murdering Taimat was so graphic, I can only imagine how everyday life was for the Mesopotamian people. I’m sure there was constant war and battling for a story like this to be considered the accepted norm.

 Another difference was the mention of gender-biases. It seemed that the gender roles in this society were much different than those from the writers of the Bible and the Popol Vuh. There were no mentions of “man” or “woman”, but rather the gods were referred to as different sexes instead. I was genuinely surprised that Taimat was female. This tells me that either there were no gender roles, or that the female had the dominant role in the societies.

 It’s interesting to me that three different cultures, in three different parts of the world, from three different times who didn’t know anything of the other two could make stories so similar. They all three have a mention of heaven, a supreme being, and creation of man. Although the premises are different, they each represent answers to questions man would otherwise not know. This means how different things were formed.

 I also noticed the lack of evil in the two previous creation stories. The creation epic from Mesopotamia had and evil god that was taken over by a good one, and then used the evil god’s body to make the earth. I think this story was more of a use as entertainm