Since the beginning of time, man has created many myths with many different functions, such as explaining how things came to be, explaining where we came from, or telling what will happen to us after death. Trickster myths show many similarities, especially in the case of Ea in the Enuma Elish and Ea in the Kumarbi Cycle. In the Song of Kumarbi, Kumarbi battles Apsu for the thrown. At the end of the battle, Kumarbi casterates Apsu, and is impregnated with the storm god Tessub. Kumarbi wanted to destroy Tessub, so he plans to eat him once he is born. Ea, however, whom is acting as Kumarbis midwife, gave him a rock and tells him that the rock is Tessub. Kumarbi bites into the rock and broke off his teeth, and so Tessub is able to