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ティアマトを真っ二つに切り裂き、その肋骨から天と地のアーチを作り上げた。彼女の泣いた目はチグリス川とユーフラテス川の源となり、彼女の尾は天の川となった。ティアマトを真っ二つに切り裂き、その肋骨から天と地のアーチを作り上げた。彼女の泣いた目はチグリス川とユーフラテス川の源となり、彼女の尾は天の川となった<ref>Barentine, John C., The Lost Constellations: A History of Obsolete, Extinct, or Forgotten Star Lore, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-22795-5_27, Tigris, 2016, The Lost Constellations, Springer Praxis Books, Springer Praxis Books, isbn:978-3-319-22795-5, Springer, Cham, pages425–438, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22795-5_27</ref>。そして、年長者の神々の承認を得て、キングーから「運命の石版」を奪い、自らをバビロニアのパンテオンの長に据えたのだった。その赤い血と大地の赤い土が混ざって人類の体となり、若いイギギの神々の下僕として働くようになったのである。
Slicing Tiamat in half, he made from her ribs the vault of heaven and earth. Her weeping eyes became the sources of the [[Tigris]] and the [[Euphrates]], her tail became the [[Milky Way]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Barentine|first=John C.|title=The Lost Constellations: A History of Obsolete, Extinct, or Forgotten Star Lore|chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-22795-5_27|chapter=Tigris|date=2016|journal=The Lost Constellations|series=Springer Praxis Books|publisher=Springer Praxis Books|isbn=978-3-319-22795-5|location=Springer, Cham|pages=425–438|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-22795-5_27}}</ref> With the approval of the elder deities, he took from Kingu the [[Tablet of Destinies (mythic item)|Tablet of Destinies]], installing himself as the head of the Babylonian [[Pantheon (gods)|pantheon]]. [[Kingu]] was captured and later was slain: his red blood mixed with the red clay of the Earth would make the body of humankind, created to act as the servant of the younger [[Igigi]] deities.
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そして、北風にそれを秘密の場所に運び去らせた。</blockquote>
The principal theme of the epic is the rightful elevation of Marduk to command over all the deities. "It has long been realized that the Marduk epic, for all its local coloring and probable elaboration by the Babylonian theologians, reflects in substance older Sumerian material," American Assyriologist [[Ephraim Avigdor Speiser|E. A. Speiser]] remarked in 1942<ref>Speiser, "An Intrusive Hurro-Hittite Myth", ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' '''62'''.2 (June 1942:98–102) p. 100.</ref> adding "The exact Sumerian prototype, however, has not turned up so far." This surmise that the Babylonian version of the story is based upon a modified version of an older [[Epic poem|epic]], in which [[Enlil]], not Marduk, was the god who slew Tiamat,<ref>Expressed, for example, in E. O. James, ''The Worship of the Skygod: A Comparative Study in Semitic and Indo-European Religion'' (London: University of London, Jordan Lectures in Comparative religion) 1963:24, 27f.</ref> is more recently dismissed as "distinctly improbable".<ref>As by W. G. Lambert, reviewing James 1963 in ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'', University of London, '''27'''.1 (1964), pp. 157–158.</ref>
