"I will gather the blood, I will bind it with bones, I will create a creature, I will call it a man, Verily, I will create men. Let them serve the gods so that they may rest."

Marduk took the blood of the murdered god Kingui and made a man out of it. The gods erected majestic dwellings-temples for themselves from bricks. People should build the same temples.

The likeness of what he created in heaven, let it be done on earth! Let people remember, let them call out to God! According to the words of his mouth, let the goddess be honored! Let bread sacrifices be offered to the deities! Let the gods be kept without negligence!

According to another myth, the gods, wanting to burden someone with hard work, decided to create people.

"The Most Wise" is the god who has understanding, They killed in their congregation. From his body, from his blood The goddess Ninta kneaded clay. To hear the beating of the heart forever, The mind lives in the flesh of God, Knows the living sign of his life... The Anunnaki called the great gods... Thus saith to the great gods: "You ordered — I committed... I saved you from work, I gave your baskets to a person." (Transl. by V. K. Afanasyeva)

2. The Egyptian Story of the Creation of the World

According to the Memphis legend, the progenitor of everything was the god Ptah (or Ptah).

"All things came out of him: food and food, food of the gods and all other beautiful things. And so it was found and recognized that his power was greater than that of all the other gods. And Ptah was pleased after he had done all the things and all the words of God. And he gave birth to the gods, he created the cities, he founded the nomes (regions), he placed the gods in their sanctuaries, he established their sacrifices, he founded their temples, he created their bodies according to the desire of their hearts. And the gods entered into their bodies from every wood, from all clay, from all things that grew on it and in which they took their forms. (translated by M. E. Mathieu)

3. Iranian dualism

Отрывки из Авесты, священной книги маздеистской религии Ирана:

45,2. Я хочу сказать о двух духах в начале бытия, из которых светлый сказал злому: «Не согласуются у нас ни мысли, ни ученье, ни воля». 30,3. Оба изначальных духа явились, как пара близнецов, добрый и дурной — в мысли, слове и деле.

4. Образ дракона в ханаанской мифологии

В мифе о богине-воительнице Анат повествуется о ее борьбе против морского бога смерти Ямма и его Дракона (в другом мифе Ямма побеждает Ваал). Анат говорит:

Не сгубила ли я Ямма, любимца Эла, Не уничтожила ли бога Реку? Не поразила ли я Дракона, Не победила ли гибкого Змея, Могучее чудовище с семью головами? (Мифология древнего мира)