Sumer and Babylon · Enuma Elish VI
The Anunnaki split: three hundred above, three hundred below
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Marduk divides the Anunnaki: three hundred to stand guard in heaven and three hundred on earth. In thanks, the Anunnaki build him Babylon and its temple Esagila, making bricks for a year.
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Read it literally
A garrison split between orbit and ground, and the gods themselves do construction.
What scholars say
The Anunnaki are the great gods, 'offspring of An'.
