PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- There are striking similarities between the Homeric and near eastern cosmologies.
- In the Babylonian creation epic the primordial water monster Tiamat is slain by Marduk. He then fashions her body into the earth and uses her tail to protect the surface of the earth from the primordial waters. Thus a primitive account is given of how the earth came to be. Water was
considered to be the origin of all things in several of the ancient mythical accounts of the universe.