Babylon and the Sky God — How Ancient Myths Engineered the Modern World | Professor Jiang

Before nations and laws, there were myths — and none shaped civilization more than Babylon’s Enuma Elish.

Professor Jiang explores how the ancient story of the Sky God defeating the Mother Goddess became the first political theology — turning divine violence into social order.
Babylon, the “divine city,” stood as the model for every empire that followed — where kings ruled as gods and cities became reflections of the heavens.

From Marduk and Tiamat to Gilgamesh, this lecture traces how ancient myths weren’t mere stories, but the architecture of civilization itself.
And how the same mythic logic — of control, order, and divine hierarchy — still governs the modern world.

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