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Enuma Elish

By: L.W. King
Narrated by: Teagan McKenzie
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Enuma Elish is the Mesopotamian epic of creation, translated by Leonard William King. The Enuma Elish is the earliest written creation myth, in which the god Marduk battles the goddess of chaos and her evil minions. The words Enuma Elish mean "When on high".

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She has zero emotion, and honestly I thought she was an 'auto-reader' but... Turns out, she's just bad.

Absolutely abysmal narration.

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It's a great story, but the reading is a bit robotic. It's short though, so it's forgivable. Good for a short car ride.

Not the best reading of a classic text.

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This sounds like it was narrated by a text to audio program. Very AI-ish

Narration sounds off

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Babylonian epic about how Marduk gained supremacy over all the other gods by defeating Tiamat. After Tiamat was slain her body was used to create the earth. The creation of humanity was an afterthought in this story. A few times the story was somewhat repetitive but overall it is short and to the point. The Babylonians main God was Marduk so no surprise in this epic it explains how he gained preeminence.

The Babylonian epic of creation. How Tiamat was slain and the earth was created and Marduk gained supremacy.

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probably buy a different one. reading is a little stilted. possibly that's a deliberate choice. there's no context and at the end there's like a 1 minute alternate version? context please.

Ok but no context

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it would be much better to have a modern English translation . Why not just leave it in the original language since Elizabethian English needs to be translated for modern people

Old english...

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The reading was sufficient to be a hearer of a story from the olden days. What people listened to as their religion. Quite an experience from that POV.

Bringing to life 4500 ya

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Read this after it was recommended in another text. It is written in riddles almost that can be reread to understand new meanings. Short read! I did not like the reading of this audiobook. It made it hard to get connected with the story.

Lots to decipher

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the main problem with this is that the author is narrating what was originally a song. Combine that with parts of the texts that are just plain missing. Unfortunately this makes it a very difficult listen. Though you might want to listen to it if you can't slog through the text, which is what I did. It's not very long so if you can endure the lousy narration, you can finish it. it would be nice if somebody took the innumerable ish and translated it into a fantasy novel or something much more consumable.

not that great but not horrible either

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The narrator it's not very good. She does speak very clearly but is very monotone, without emotion, and fast.
However, I found that slowing the speed down to 80%, made it almost perfect. Great mythical story though.

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