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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."
Eventually, Marduk, the son of Enki and the national god of the Babylonians, slays Tiamat and uses her body to create the earth. [266] In the Assyrian version of the story, it is Ashur who slays Tiamat instead. [266] Tiamat was the personification of the primeval waters and it is hard to tell how the author of the Enûma Eliš imagined her ...
Manfred Krebernik assumes that Eudemus might have confused mummu treated as an epithet of Tiamat with the god Mummu, and as a result concluded that he was a son of the primordial couple. [8] Vitali Bartash nonetheless assumes that Mummu is implicitly a son of Apsu in the Enūma Eliš as well. [39]
Alternate proposals include understanding her words as a warning not to further harm already defeated Yam, or a curse directed at the sea god. [48] The meaning of the term describing Baal’s actions in Ashtart’s speech, bṯ, is uncertain,though “scatter” has been proposed based on a possible Arabic cognate, baṯṯa, and on similar ...
Hindi literature (Hindi: हिंदी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awadhi and Marwari.
Rigvedic deities are deities mentioned in the sacred texts of Rigveda, the principal text of the historical Vedic religion of the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE).. There are 1,028 hymns (sūkta) in the Rigveda.
This has suggested the meaning of Hubur to be "river of fertility in the underworld". [6] Linda Foubister has suggested the river of creation was linked with the importance of rivers and rain in the fertile crescent and suggested it was related to the underworld as rivers resemble snakes . [ 7 ]
[3] [4] The artistic representations are sometimes called "naked heroes" in literature. Lahmu were associated with water. They were generally believed to be servants of Enki /Ea (and later on of his son Marduk as well), and were described as the doorkeepers of his temple in Eridu and possibly as the "guardians of the sea" known from some ...