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In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat (Akkadian: ๐ญ๐พ๐๐ณ D TI.AMAT or ๐ญ๐๐ D TAM.TUM, Ancient Greek: Θαλฮฌττη, romanized: Thaláttฤ) [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 ษ ห l æ s ษ /; Ancient Greek: Θฮฌλασσα, romanized: Thálassa, lit. 'sea'; [2] Attic Greek: Θฮฌλαττα, 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 (๐ญ๐ฅ๐, 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.
The ancestral Enki's name means "lord earth," while the meaning of the name of the god of Eridu is uncertain but not the same, as indicated by some writings including an amissable g. [257] Enmesharra: Enmesharra was a minor deity of the underworld. [65] Seven, eight or fifteen other minor deities were said to be his offspring. [258]
The humans multiplied en masse and disturbed the gods around Enlil and Anu with their noise, so that they wanted to use the cosmic freshwater ocean to trigger the great flood and destroy the humans (cf. Athrahasis epic). Enraged by the devastation of earth, Tiamat gave birth to monsters whose bodies she filled with "poison instead of blood" and ...
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Illustration by Wenceslas Hollar: the spirit of God (with Tetragrammaton) moves over the face of the deep. Tehom (Hebrew: ืชึฐึผืืึนื tษhôm) 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.
Barb argued that although the name "Abyzou" appears to be a corrupted form of the Greek แผβυσσος ábyssos ' abyss ', [3] the Greek itself was borrowed from Akkadian Apsu or Sumerian Abzu. The primeval sea was originally an androgyne or asexual, later dividing into the male Abzu ( fresh water ) and the female Tiamat ( seawater , appearing ...