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In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat (Akkadian: 𒀭𒋾𒀀𒆳 D TI.AMAT or 𒀭𒌓𒌈 D TAM.TUM, Ancient Greek: Θαλάττη, romanized: Thaláttē) [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."
Tehom (Hebrew: תְּהוֹם təhôm) is a Northwest Semitic and Biblical Hebrew word meaning "the deep” or “abyss” (literally “the deeps”). [1] It is used to describe the primeval ocean and the post-creation waters of the earth. It is a cognate of the Akkadian words tiāmtum and tâmtum as well as Ugaritic t-h-m which have similar ...
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 Enūma 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;
A male-female pair, they mate and Tiamat gives birth to the first generation of gods. [266] Ea (Enki) slays Abzu [266] and Tiamat gives birth to eleven monsters to seek vengeance for her lover's death. [266] Eventually, Marduk, the son of Enki and the national god of the Babylonians, slays Tiamat and uses her body to create the earth. [266]
Kingu, also spelled Qingu (𒀭𒆥𒄖, 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.
Tiamat (or Tehom, in masculine form) was the ancient Mesopotamian god of the sea and of chaos. The word appears in the Hebrew Bible as təhōm ( Genesis 1:2), meaning "primordial ocean, abyss". [ 2 ]
An HIV diagnosis changed everything for Richard Hernandez, who has since become Eva Tiamat Medusa, the Tiamat Dragon Lady. In 1997, Hernandez was working as the vice president at an American bank ...
Tiamat is a supremely strong and powerful 5-headed draconic goddess in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. [3] The name is taken from Tiamat, a goddess in ancient Mesopotamian mythology. She is the queen and mother of evil dragons and a member of the default pantheon of Dungeons & Dragons gods. [5] Her symbol is a five-headed dragon. [4]