I know that girl told u
her name was Jezebel
but it's really Tiamat & she's a monster;
I recognize her face from
[Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal
impressions from the eighth century BC
identified by several sources
as a possible depiction of the slaying
of Tiamat from the Enûma Eliš
of Ancient Mesopotamian religion:
Chaos Monster & Sun God [Primordial beings ( )]
Abzu & Tiamat. Lahmu & Lahamu
Anshar & Kishar Mummu
The Seven gods who decree the
Other major deities;
Minor deities, Demigods & heroes,
Spirits & monsters of the
[Tales
of Ancient Near Eastern religions
[Sumerian & Babylonian
In the religion of ancient Babylon, Tiamat
(Akkadian:AM.TUM, Greek: Θαλάττη Thaláttē)
is a primordial goddess of the salt sea,
mating with Abzû, the god of fresh water,
to produce the younger gods.
She is the symbol of the chaos of primordial creation.
She is referred to as a woman described as the glistening one.
It is suggested that there are two parts
to the Tiamat mythos, in the first
Tiamat is a creator goddess,
through a sacred marriage between salt and fresh water,
peacefully creating the cosmos
through successive generations;
In the second Chaoskampf Tiamat
is considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos;
Some sources identify her with images
of a sea serpent or dragon
[The motif of Chaoskampf (German: [ˈkaːɔsˌkampf], "struggle against
chaos")
is ubiquitous in global myth & legend,
depicting a battle of a culture hero deity
with a chaos monster, often in the shape
of a serpent or dragon or beautiful woman;
the same term has
also been extended to parallel concepts
in the Middle East and North Africa, such
as the abstract conflict of ideas in the Egyptian
duality of Maat and Isfet or the battle of Horus and Set
The origins of the Chaoskampf myth
most likely lie in the Proto-Indo-European religion
whose descendants
almost all feature some variation of the story
of the storm god fighting the
sea serpent; representing
clash between the forces of order and chaos;
Early work by German academics
such as Gunkel and Bousset's comparative mythology
popularized translating the mythological
sea serpent as a "dragon."
Indo-European examples of this mythic trope
include Thor vs. Jörmungandr (Norse),
Tarḫunz vs. Illuyanka (Hittite),
Indra vs. Vritra (Vedic),
Θraētaona vs. Aži Dahāka (Avestan);
Zeus vs. Typhon (Greek) among others; Non-Indo-European
examples of this trope are
Yahweh vs. Leviathan (Hebrew),
Susano'o vs. Yamata no Orochi (Japanese) &
Mwindo vs. Kirimu (African).
In the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation,
she gives birth to the first generation of deities;
her husband, Apsu, correctly assuming
they are planning to **** him and usurp his throne,
makes war upon them and is killed. Enraged, she,
too, wars upon her husband's murderers,
taking on the form
of a massive sea dragon; |
she is slain by Enki's son,
the storm-god Marduk, but not before
she has brought forth the monsters
of the Mesopotamian pantheon, including the first dragons,
whose bodies she fills w/ "poison instead of blood" -
Marduk then forms the heavens and the earth from her quartered body.
