Laboring feverishly over newly found tablets as well as tablets that had been languishing on the shelves for years, Smith identified and succeeded in translating the Enuma Elish. After two thousand years of forgetting, both deliberate and accidental, it became clear that the Hebrew origin story had not stood alone, in solitary splendor. The opening of Genesis was evidently a response to what the captives heard over and over again when they sat and wept by the waters of Babylon. Those captives determined not to swell the number of the lullu, the black-headed people who sang hymns to Marduk.
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