0. B. WAEEWG. 119-C89) 



(In the paper, as read, the translations of Mr. Smith 

 and Prof. Sayce were given in full.) 

 The first tablet : 



1. At that time, above the heaven was not named. 



2. Below the earth by name was unrecorded. 



3. The boundless deep also was their generator. 



4. The chaos of the seas was she who bore the whole 



of them. 



5. Their waters were collected in one place and the 



6. flowering reed was not gathered and the marsh 



plant was not grown. 



7. At that time the gods had not been produced any 



one of them. 



8. By name they had not been called ; destiny was 



not fixed. 



9. Then were made also the great gods. 



10. The gods Lakhmu and Lakhamu were produced 



first. 



11. And to growth they * * * 



12. The gods Sar and Kisar were made next. 



13. The days were long, a long time passed and 



14. the gods Anu (Bel and Hea were born of) 



15. the gods Sar and Kisar. 



Comparing this with Genesis the differences are many 

 and profound. 



Genesis says, "In the beginning God created the heav- 

 ens, and earth." There is nothing like that in the myth. 



Genesis says, "darkness covered the deep." The 

 myth says nothing of darkness at all. 



Genesis says, " The spirit of God moved upon the face of 

 the primeval waters." The myth says the great gods were 

 not yet made, and that the water was the mother of them 

 all. 



In Genesis we read : And God said let there be light, 

 and there was light. In the myth there is nothing like 

 this. To the Chaldeans, light always existed. 



In these few lines of Genesis there are four distinct 

 propositions, not one of them parallel to anything in the 

 myth. 



Genesis says, God preceded all things, heaven, earth, 

 and sea. The tablet expressly says that the gods were 

 not made till after the earth and heaven. 



The former declares that the " beginning " was 



