Enter the Dragon

Expectations For Class

Do your homework

Bring your chaos dragon notebook with you

Memorization: we won’t be memorizing a verse. Instead we will be reading a chapter of scripture, creating a summary page and than condensing it down to one sentence. The chapter of scripture will align with lesson.

Ask questions. Just sitting here is pointless. If you are confused ask. If you realize a connection, speak. The Bible needs to be read in a community, therefore other people’s insights are needed to really understand.

Watch Chaos Dragon Video

Do you believe in dragons?

See what questions generate from here. If all simple no’s than ask why they don’t.

Bibleproject introduces the Chaos Dragon Theme (https://bibleproject.com/videos/chaos-dragon/)

Myths of the Middle East

Enuma Elish

Who’s the storm-god? How do they appear?

Marduk as a storm, tall, and rode a chariot that was a storm

Who’s the dragon/chaos? What do they look like?

Tiamat (saltwater), she gave birth to dragons, serpents, lion-demons, scorpion-men

How many battles does it take to defeat the dragon?

One battle

Outcome of the final battle?

Tiamat is killed and split into two one is placed into the heavens and the other became the earth. Marduk is called king of the gods

Important events to remember:

Babylon is the city of Marduk. He used a net to catch her and a bow and arrow to slay her.

Baal Cycle

Who’s the storm-god? How do they appear?

Baal, cloud rider, a storm

Who’s the dragon/chaos? What do they look like?

Yam, the sea (wild, roaring and merciless). He is like a serpent

Mot, god of death

How many battles does it take to defeat the dragon?

2 battles (needed better weapons: Yagrush and Amur

Outcome of the final battle?

Baal is made king of the gods

Builds a palace on Mount Zaphon

Important events to remember:

Yam isn’t torn apart- could still be alive

Mot isn’t dead- he is still around and Baal needs to fight him and keep him back

Needs help of two gods: Anat and Katharine-wa-Khasis

The king is the image of Baal and therefore “the king assumes the role of guarantor of stability in creation, as does the mountain” (Miller 118)

Hittites Myths

Who’s the storm-god? How do they appear? Unnamed storm-god (Tarhuna)

Who’s the dragon/chaos? What do they look like? Illuyanka, the great serpent

How many battles does it take to defeat the dragon? The first battle was a fail (2 battles) The first battle was a fail- eyes and hearts stolen

Outcome of the final battle? Serpent was killed after getting drunk

Important events to remember: Goddess Inaras gets a mortal man to get Illuyanka drunk 2nd episode (marries a human woman and has a son). Son marries the daughter of Illuyanka but retrieves the heart and eyes for his father. Both times the human helper is killed. Citations: ChatGPT created the dramatized stories Miller, Robert D. The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations : An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives. University Park, Pa, Eisenbrauns, 2018.

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