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Originally Posted by x-deviant-x
I believe many mythologies are interwoven and stem from the same source. It's not as far-fetched as you may think.
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But the Assyrians didn't believe Lilith was the wife of Adam. The Hebrews merely adapted a creature and called it lilith from them, and it wasn't until 8th century-ish that she was conceived as Adam's first wife.
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The Enuma Elish (Babylonian Creation myth) is considered to be virtually identical to the book of Genesis, yet in the Enuma Elish man is created as a slave to the gods, whereas in Genesis God creates man out of love, or some such bs.
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It is by no means identical, except to people who probably didn't read either. Tiamat was ripped in half, humans were created as an afterthought. It was polytheistic, and the gods were incredibly anthropormorphic. YHWH is in Genesis 2, to but not to the extent of Tiamat or Marduk, and Elohim is transcendent, omnipotent and doesn't create humans from the earth in Genesis 1. Some elements are similar like Tiamat being chaotic and using water, but that's it. Plus Genesis leads you up to the death of Joseph in Egypt, and Enuma Elish doesn't cover that kind of thing.
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Joseph Campbell attempted to map these threads in his various writings and a lifetime of studying world mythology. His work and ideas are highly regarded by many students of mythology. Yet he believed all of it was fiction.
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Campbell is now pretty outdated, you realize, and had a shit load of problems. He's a fun read but can't really be taken academically seriously anymore.