What is the purpose of this passage from the myth? Abc
to explain how the first humans came to exist on
Earth
Ea called on Marduk, a great warrior god, saying that if
Marduk should be victorious, he would be the lord of all
the gods. A great battle ensued, with gods raging against
each other. Marduk reached Tiamat, the embodiment of
chaos, and smashed her head with his great club. He
sliced her in half, making the North Wind bear her pieces
away. From each half of her ribs he created the vault of
the heavens and the earth. Her weeping eyes became
sacred rivers, and Tiamat was no more.
-"Enuma Elish,"
Early Babylonian myth
to explain how the heavens, earth, and rivers were
created
to explain how humans should act toward one
anther

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?