"It could not be admitted without damaging the truth that there is anything in common between the polytheistic expressions of the Babylonian story and the strictly monotheistic ones of the Holy Scripture. But, as for the poetically representative way of weaving the cosmogonic tale, certain parallels between the Babylonian poem and the first chapter of Genesis are so undeniable and evident that it is useless for us to continue to dwell on them. The primitive existence of an oceanic Chaos, precisely called tehôm-tiamat, whose property is confusion and darkness [...] its division into two parts, one to form the sky, the other earth, is a parallelism so close that it cannot be said to be the result of chance in any way. (Salvatore Minocchi)"