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In this comprehensive study, Wayne Horowitz examines all of the extant Mesopotamian texts relating to the ideas of the physical universe and its constituent parts—heaven, earth, the subterranean waters, and the underworld. He shows that the Mesopotamian view of the universe, although somewhat discordant, remained fairly constant over more than 2,500 years.

of the Igigi and Anunnaki is not known before Kassite times.3 Nevertheless, the tradition of three heavens and earths could be older. 4 KAR 307 is one of a small number of first-millennium mystical-religious compilations.5 The tablet preserves 63 lines of text divided into six sections by horizontal rulings, with three sections on the obverse and three on the reverse. The section of the tablet describing the levels of the universe (obv. 30–38) occupies the final section
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