When the gods in their assembly had made [the world]
And had created the heavens and had formed [the earth]
And had brought living creatures into being [......]
And [had fashioned] the cattle of the field, and the beasts of the field, and the creatures [of
the city],—
After [they had........] unto the living creatures [.......][c]
The rest is too mutilated for comprehension of anything besides single words.
THE BABYLONIAN RELIGION
The fact that these tablets as well as so many others of Babylonian origin were found in an Assyrian library, shows that the Assyrians took their religion like the rest of their culture from the Babylonians. Indeed the Assyrian myths, religious doctrines, and observances are so similar to those of the mother-country that in speaking of Babylonian religion the Assyrian is usually to be understood as well. The Babylonian religion in turn was largely influenced by the Summerian which was an astral religion. The names of the gods are found written with the same ideograms although they were doubtless pronounced differently. Many of the texts are found written in Summerian with interlinear Assyrian translations.