Other such complex chains may be found in connection with the transference of weapons from hero to monster, the equaling of their attributes, and the murder of
Apsu. (43) All three of these poems are deeply intertextual.
An electronic survey, approved by the university's institutional review board (IRB), was deployed at
APSU using Survey Monkey in September 2010.
While it is still early to make general connections between Degree Compass and graduation rates, since the system was introduced at
APSU in Spring 2011, the six-year graduation rate has increased from 33 percent to 37.4 percent, with the greater gains for low-income students (increased from 25 percent to 31 percent) and African American students (increased from 28.7 percent to 33.8 percent).
College and university organizations such as the AAPA, the network of Asian and Pacific Islander student organizations such as the Asian/Pacific Islander Student Union (
APSU) and the East Coast Asian Student Union (ECASU), as well as Asian American Studies programs created the space for organizing, educational events, and communication between organizations and networks (Espiritu, 1992; Geron, 2002; Pulido, 2006; Umemoto, 1989).
Tiamat is of course the primal mother of our text, 'she who bore them all' (I:4), who is finally roused to avenge the death of her consort
Apsu and wipe out the younger gods who have disturbed the heavens.
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This way of understanding the text turns the preamble to the narrative into the equivalent of the preamble to the Babylonian Enuma elish, which is read as: 'When above the heavens were not named, and down below the solid earth had not received a name, (then)
Apsu, the Initial one, sired them, Tiamat the causal one gave birth to them all ...'(2) The construction 'When...
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The epic details the struggle of
Apsu, god of the primordial waters under the earth, and his consort Tiamat, the sea goddess, against Ea, god of wisdom, and his son Marduk, a god-hero.
Eliade notes the commonality of concept in the Babylonian and Hebrew accounts of the three cosmic regions, heaven, earth and hell: 'But it is always Babylon that is the scene of the connection between the earth and the lower regions, for the city had been built upon bab apsi, the "Gate of the
Apsu" -
apsu designating the waters of chaos before the Creation.