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Imhullu (Evil Wind)

By Elizabeth Stein for Mythos Atlas. About the author. Editorial notes are grounded in the site's cited sources and can be challenged through the contact page.

Description

Marduk's evil wind

Enuma Elish: Marduk arms for Tiamat with bow, arrow, net, and the imhullu, the evil wind, among other storms. The wind inflates Tiamat so that he can shoot her and split her to make heaven and earth. The poem is a late second-millennium Babylonian creation-and-kingship text, recited at the akitu festival. Imhullu is a named storm-weapon in that arsenal, not a relic in a temple inventory matched to a find. Marduk's victory is Babylon's charter, written in Akkadian.

Primary Sources

“He sent the imhullu, the evil wind, to swell Tiamat's belly; then he shot the arrow that split her.”
Enuma Elish, Tablet IV(c. late 2nd millennium BCE)

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