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In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat (Akkadian: ππΎππ³ D TI.AMAT or πππ D TAM.TUM, Ancient Greek: ΘαλΞ¬ττη, romanized: ThaláttΔ) [1] is the primordial sea, mating with Abzû (Apsu), the groundwater, to produce the gods in the Babylonian epic Enûma Elish, which translates as "when on high."
Thalassa (/ θ Ι Λ l æ s Ι /; Ancient Greek: ΘΞ¬λασσα, romanized: Thálassa, lit. 'sea'; [2] Attic Greek: ΘΞ¬λαττα, Thálatta [3]) was the general word for 'sea' and for its divine female personification in Greek mythology. The word may have been of Pre-Greek origin [4] and connected to the name of the Mesopotamian primordial ...
Qingu, also spelled Kingu (ππ₯π, d kin-gu, lit. ' unskilled laborer '), was a god in Babylonian mythology, and the son of the gods Abzu and Tiamat. [1] After the murder of his father, Apsu, he served as the consort of his mother, Tiamat, who wanted to establish him as ruler and leader of all gods before she was killed by Marduk.
In this story, he was a primal being made of fresh water and a lover to another primal deity, Tiamat, a creature of salt water. The EnΕ«ma Eliš begins: "When above the heavens (e-nu-ma e-liš) did not yet exist nor the earth below, Apsû the freshwater ocean was there, the first, the begetter, and Tiamat, the saltwater sea, she who bore them all;
In both the Enuma Elish and the Myth of Anzu, a dragon (Anzu or Tiamat) steals the Tablet of Destinies from Enlil, the chief god and in response, the chief god looks for someone to slay the dragon. Then, in both stories, a champion among the gods is chosen to fight the dragon ( Ninurta or Marduk) after two or three others before them reject the ...
The epic starts off by mentioning Apsu and Tiamat, here the oldest gods, and created a younger generation of the gods. However, Apsu was disturbed by their noisiness and decided to kill them. Ea, however, found out about the plot and kills Apsu and takes his splendour. Later Marduk was born to Ea and Damkina, and already at birth he was special.
Nibiru is Marduk's star which the gods in heaven caused to be visible. Nibiru stands as a post at the turning point. The others say of Nibiru the post: "The one who crosses the middle of the sea ( Tiamat ) without calm, may his name be Nibiru, for he takes up the center of it."
In the Babylonian creation story Enûma Eliš the universe was in a formless state and is described as a watery chaos. From it emerged two primary gods, the male Apsu and female Tiamat, and a third deity who is the maker Mummu and his power for the progression of cosmogonic births to begin. [110]