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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."
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]
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 EnÅ«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;
Qingu, also spelled Kingu (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.
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]
A 5th century Roman mosaic of Thalassa, in the Hatay Archaeological Museum [1]. 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.
Typhon mythology is part of the Greek succession myth, which explained how Zeus came to rule the gods. Typhon's story is also connected with that of Python (the serpent killed by Apollo), and both stories probably derived from several Near Eastern antecedents. Typhon was (from c. 500 BC) also identified with the Egyptian god of destruction Set.
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 EnÅ«ma Eliš as well. [39]