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5. Mesopotamia (Sumerian and Babylonian religion.)
c. Rise of Babylon (~3 000 B.C.E. to 1 700 B.C.E.)
i. Patron god of Babylon is Marduk, who kills Nammu and An.
ii. Marduk is made supreme god over the rest of the Sumerian pantheon.
iii. Marduk re-organizes creation and chooses Babylon as his seat of power.
iv. Creation myth written in the Enuma Elish and re-told annually in festival of Akitu.