The Babylonian Legends of the Creation by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (great books of all time .txt) 📕

s, in which he says: "But theBabylonians, like the rest of the Barbarians, pass over in silence theOne principle of the Universe, and they conceive Two, TAUTHE andAPASON; making APASON the husband of TAUTHE, and denominating her themother of the gods. And from these proceeds an only-begotten son,MOYMIS, which I conceive is no other than the Intelligible Worldproceeding from the two principles. From these, also, another progenyis derived, DACHE and DACHUS; and again, a third, KISSARE and ASSORUS,from which last three others proceed, ANUS, and ILLINUS, and AUS. Andof AUS and DAUCE is born a son called Belus, who, they say, is thefabricator of the world, the Demiurgus." (See Cory, AncientFragments, London, 1832, p. 318.)

THE SEVEN TABLETS OF CREATION. DESCRIPTION OF THEIR CONTENTS.

In the beginning nothing whatever existed except APSÛ, which may bedescribed as a boundless, confused and disordered mass of watery matter;how it came into being is unknown. Out of this mass there were