 Ninurta destroys Anzu on a mountainside, and is portrayed as lashing the ground where Anzu lay with a rainstorm and floodwaters, just as Homer has Zeus lash the land about Typhon with his thunderbolts.The early second-millennium BC Babylonian-Akkadian creation epic "Enûma Eliš" tells the story of the battle of the Babylonian supreme god Marduk with Tiamat, the Sea personified.Like Zeus, Marduk was a storm-god, who employed wind and lightning as weapons, and who, before he can succeed to the kingship of the gods, must defeat a huge and fearsome enemy in single combat.