National God of the Babylonians.
The chief Babylonian god; his consort was Sarpanitu.
1According to Hammurabi, the Code was given to him personally by Marduk.
2Associated with Marduk in the creation of mankind is a goddess Aruru.
3Present my deeds favourably unto Samas and Marduk; speak in my behalf.
4Then Tiâmat and Marduk, chief of the gods, advanced towards one another.
5A wife of Marduk may leave her estate to whomsoever she wishes.
6And whenever Marduk got stuck, he would ask his father Enki for help.
7The rest of the narrative, so far as preserved, is concerned with Marduk.
8By Marduk, the chief magician of the gods, be ye foresworn.
9After this incidental mention of Aruru, the narrative passes back undisturbed to Marduk.
10There is a representation of Marduk here on this stele-theCode of Hammurabi.
11All brought downriver by those miserable boats, Marduk curse them all!
12The priests of Marduk set the fashion in theological thought.
13The storm-god En-lil is set aside to make room for the solar deity Marduk.
14The gods recall with gratitude Marduk's service in vanquishing Tiâmat.
15His dissolute son, Amil-Marduk, was soon murdered by his brother-in-law Nergalsharuzur (Gk.
16The second tablet closes with Anshar's decision to send his son Marduk against Tiâmat: