Marduk
c. 2000 BCE – 100 BCEattested
Babylon
- Mesopotamian
Rose from a minor city god to king of the pantheon as Babylon rose, and in the Enuma Elish builds the world from the corpse of the sea he has just killed.
Known for
- creation by combat
- the fifty names
- city god made supreme
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.