"Apsu" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when above the heaven was not named.[687] Below, the earth bore no name. Apsu was there, the original, their begettor,[2] Mummu [and] Tiamat, the mother of them all.[688] But their waters[689] were gathered together in a mass. No field was marked off, no marsh[690] was seen. When none of the gods was as yet produced, No name mentioned, no ...
— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Morris Jastrow
... "of the series WHEN ABOVE. The property of Asshurbanipal, king of nations, king of Assyria." The first lines are intact:—"When the heaven above and the earth below were as yet unnamed,"—(i.e., according to Semitic ideas, did not exist)—APSU (the "Abyss") and MUMMU-TIAMAT (the "billowy Sea") were the beginning of all things; their waters mingled and flowed together; that was the Primeval Chaos; it contained the germs of life but "the darkness was not lifted" from the waters, and therefore nothing sprouted or ...
— Chaldea - From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria • Znade A. Ragozin |
