Question 2 With the text Enuma Elish, we can theorize that their society was violent. When Apsu is first faced with the issue of noisy children inside of the belly of Tiamat, he plans to murder them. He doesn 't decide to ignore or try to calm and quiet them down, but instead chose to kill his children. The children do not lie down to die, but instead preemptively kills their father. This myth would show to their society, that if the gods themselves solved their problems with violence, the people would also have the same right to use violence as a solution. This happens a second time when Tiamat is killed by Marduk. Tiamat had declared a war against her children for killing her first husband and ended with her body being torn to pieces to