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In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat (Akkadian: ð’€ð’‹¾ð’€€ð’†³ D TI.AMAT or ð’€ð’Œ“𒌈 D TAM.TUM, Ancient Greek: Θαλάττη, romanized: ThaláttÄ“) [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."
Kingu, also spelled Qingu (ð’€ð’†¥ð’„–, 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 the end, the Tablet is recovered by the god Ninurta and returned to Enlil. [2] The Tablet of Destinies is an important device in the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, [4] in which Tiamat bestows this tablet on Kingu when she takes him as her consort and gives him command of her army. The tablet is seized by the god Marduk after his defeat of Qingu.
Thalassa (/ θ É™ ˈ l æ s É™ /; Ancient Greek: Θάλασσα, romanized: Thálassa, lit. 'sea'; [2] Attic Greek: Θάλαττα, 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 ...
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The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Chaos The Void
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Lotan (ltn) is an adjectival formation meaning "coiled", here used as a proper name; [7] the same creature has a number of possible epitheta, including "the fugitive serpent" (bṯn brḥ) and maybe (with some uncertainty deriving from manuscript lacunae) "the wriggling serpent" (bṯn Ê¿qltn) and "the mighty one with seven heads" (šlyá¹ d ...