'In quel giorno, in quella notte, in quell’anno'. Cosmogonie e cosmologie sumeriche e assiro-babilonesi

The paper attempts to reconstruct the cosmogonic and cosmological doctrines of the Mesopotamian peoples over their three millennia of history. It focuses on both Sumerian and Akkadian sources that describe the origin, formation, and organization of the universe according to Mesopotamian religious thought.