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Unit 1 1. According to the Mesopotamian Creation Story, from what does Marduk fashion the earth and the skies? When Marduk destroys Tiamat, he rips her body into two halves and fashions the earth and the skies. 2. According to the Mesopotamian Creation Story, what does Marduk use to create humankind? Marduk destroys Tiamat’s husband, Kingu, and uses his blood to create humankind. 3. According to the bracketed head note to our selection from the Epic of Gilgamesh, what causes the gods to send a flood to eradicate humankind? The humans are being too noisy and the gods cannot sleep, and the gods use the flood to deal with overpopulation 4. How is Utnapishtim warned of the upcoming flood? The god Ea gave Utnapishtim a dream. He told him the gods within Shurippak decided to bring about a flood and he said to build a ship bringing every kind of creature on to the ship. 5. What are some similarities between the stories of the flood narrated in Gilgamesh and Genesis? The boat, the offering, the dove, blessing the family, etc 6. In the account from Gilgamesh, who is the goddess that leads the gods' lament about the destruction of humankind? Ishtar 7. According to the "Short Background: Genesis" page in the unit, what are some wrong assumptions people make about Genesis? That it was Satan or Lucifer. It lied to Eve. That it had legs before the fall. The Bible only says that the serpent was made to crawl on its belly after the Fall but there’s no previous mention of them. 8. How is Eve punished for her role in the Fall from Eden? in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Unit 1 9. In Genesis after the flood, what is the "token" testifying to the "everlasting covenant between God and every living creature"? Rainbow

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What are some features in Ovid's account of creation that differ

greatly from the two previous ones? Descriptive-four elements , creation of man from marble stones, only two people being left to live, no boat being made with animals 11.

Who represents the worst of the Iron Age in his attempt to feed

Jupiter once living flesh? lycaon 12. How do Deucalion and Pyrhha interpret Themis' oracle that they "throw behind [them] the bones of [their] great mother?" What in their interpretation are the "bones"? they interpret their mother as earth and the bones being the stones of earth...