What can Babylonian and Assyrian spiritual texts teach me about resilience and power?

The Babylonians and Assyrians inherited Sumerian religion but transformed it. They added layers of complexity, political theology, the struggle between order and chaos. The Enuma Elish—their creation myth—isn't gentle. It's about conflict, about a younger god rising to establish order by force. There's no soft spirituality here. They understood that power and the divine were entangled, that civilization required constant effort against entropy. What I find useful about this isn't their militarism, but their unflinching honesty. They didn't pretend suffering was illusion or that the world rewarded the pure. They said: life is a battle for order; you must be sharp, intentional, aligned with cosmic principles. The gods themselves had to struggle. In our modern softness, we sometimes avoid the harder truths—that building something real costs, that protecting what matters demands strength, that chaos is always waiting. Rumi knew this too. His love wasn't passive; it was fierce, demanding, world-breaking. Sit with this question: What am I building that requires me to be strong? What order in my life am I willing to defend? That's Babylonian wisdom—spiritual, grounded, unflinching.