of humans on the scene in this work is no less incidental than in Enuma Elish, the canonical Mesopotamian creation account to be considered shortly. Chaos is primordial, more so than the generation of numerous gods from Ouranos (Sky) and Gaia (Earth). Chaos also persists, represented in one of several versions by the baneful progeny of Night—another triad with the names Abyss, Darkness and Fate. In another version a fourth offspring, War-Without-End, is also part of the picture. This is the world