History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12)

CHAPTER I--ANCIENT CHALDAEA

The Creation, the Deluge, the history of the gods--The country, its cities its inhabitants, its early dynasties.

“In the time when nothing which was called heaven existed above, and when nothing below had as yet received the name of earth,* Apsu, the Ocean, who first was their father, and Chaos-Tiamat, who gave birth to them all, mingled their water...