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Universe created by Bel (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Creation of physical world 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas 01.01.08 Creation of physical world	Keywords Berossus creation of the universe naming
Period 3rd century BCE Hellenistic Empires	Channel Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

Text
Berossus, Babyloniaca F17:
God created and placed the stars. Afterward the most knowledgeable men gave them their proper names and signs and established the laws of their movements. … These names and placings of the stars in constellations even Berossus in his Creation admits have nothing to do with the actual creation of the universe by Jupiter (= Bel).

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F17

Bibliography

Verbrugghe and Wickersham 2000, 66-67

Verbrugghe, Gerald P. and John M. Wickersham. Berossos and Manetho. Introduced and Translated. Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 2000.

Amar Annus

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