Babylonian Epos of the creation of the universe, the humanity and Babylon itself, the Enuma Elish (first two words of the poem) is one more example of the cultural universal, in which all the peoples try to explain themselves, where they come from and what’s their relationship with the forces of nature (usually represented as gods). Which, at the end, is the question of how humanity went out of the animal stage. In this sense, it is almost inevitable, while reading it, not to compare or to make parallels with other foundational texts of different cultures. In this sense, the gods need to fight for its survival, threatened as they are from the primal deities, that in turn, created them (vid. The Greek gigantomachy or, even when slightly, the Genesis) and the further creation of humanity. But the Enuma Elish is both a myth and an Epos, and thus is focused in an heroic character (Marduk, the main deity of Babylon, male) and an antagonist (Tiamat, one of the primal beings, female). From the corpse of Tiamat, Marduk will create the universe as it is known (there something similar in other mythologies, such as Egyptian) and from the blood of one of the titans will humanity be created. Once this foundational fight accomplished, Marduk decrees the creation of Babylon, resulting the text not just in a cosmogony, but also in a national poem. The idea of the violence as a necessity in the creation is also something that can be traced almost in every culture (think for instance in Hesiod)
Especial mention deserves the exquisite edition of the text, done by scholars of the university of Barcelona, which explains the text and both the cultural and historical background, and complementing the book with other minor texts about the subject.