…as the lyric of the opera, which is a ritual, and that all the REST of this had a 2 000 year history before marduk. Marduk was the city god of Babylon and there was a time when Babylon Didn't exist. Other towns existed eridu existed in 2000 BC, Ur…

…pictures in babylonian art of this sea serpent with a halter, marduk standing on its back, holding the reins driving it along. Marduk has conquered the sea serpent. So for some reason the history of mythology at this point required in the syncretism that…

…the other salt water and they created then the whole pantheon and the whole world and so on but eventually along came marduk. Marduk was a younger generation of gods in the next generation and there was a conflict between the older and the younger gods…

…was killed in the most violent way, ripped to pieces, creating the world creating a new order by our hero of Babylon, Mr Marduk, also baal and so on. His new year's celebration was honored at the new year time all over old Europe, including at…