creation had been achieved by conflict” (op. cit., p. 86). Brandon refers to the motif of the struggle with the dragon which occurs in the Sumerian myths: “There are three fragmentary texts which tell of the overthrow of a dragon named Kur.… But, although this monster was associated with the primeval waters.… no clear cosmogonic theme is developed in the myths concerned” (cf. Kramer 76–83). However, Th. Jacobsen has contested that Kur always has the meaning of a monster and consequently of a mythological