Sumer and Babylon · Enuma Elish, tablets I, IV, VI
Enuma Elish: Marduk splits Tiamat
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When in the height heaven was not named, And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name… He split her up like a flat fish into two halves; One half of her he stablished as a covering for heaven.
Translation: L. W. King, 1902
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Read it literally
A war in the heavens, a body split in two to make sky and earth, and humans made from the blood of a defeated rebel god (Kingu) to do the gods' work.
