Tiamat smite release date1/26/2024 ![]() It is thought that female deities are older than male ones in Mesopotamia and Tiamat may have begun as part of the cult of Nammu, a female principle of a watery creative force, with equally strong connections to the underworld, which predates the appearance of Ea-Enki. The Babylonian epic Enuma Elish is named for its incipit: "When above" the heavens did not yet exist nor the earth below, Apsu the subterranean ocean was there, "the first, the begetter", and Tiamat, the overground sea, "she who bore them all" they were "mixing their waters". Tiamat also has been claimed to be cognate with Northwest Semitic tehom (תְּהוֹם) ("the deeps, abyss"), in the Book of Genesis 1:2. It is thought that the proper name ti'amat, which is the vocative or construct form, was dropped in secondary translations of the original texts because some Akkadian copyists of Enûma Elish substituted the ordinary word tāmtu ("sea") for Tiamat, the two names having become essentially the same due to association. The later form Θαλάττη, thaláttē, which appears in the Hellenistic Babylonian writer Berossus' first volume of universal history, is clearly related to Greek Θάλαττα, thálatta, an Eastern variant of Θάλασσα, thalassa, 'sea'. Burkert continues by making a linguistic connection to Tethys. Thorkild Jacobsen and Walter Burkert both argue for a connection with the Akkadian word for sea, tâmtu( □□□), following an early form, ti'amtum. Marduk then integrates elements of her body into the heavens and the earth. She is then slain by Enki's son, the storm-god Marduk, but not before she had brought forth the monsters of the Mesopotamian pantheon, including the first dragons, whose bodies she filled with "poison instead of blood". Enraged, she also wars upon her husband's murderers, bringing forth multitudes of monsters as offspring. In the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation, Tiamat bears the first generation of deities her husband, Apsu, correctly assuming that they are planning to kill him and usurp his throne, later makes war upon them and is killed. Some sources identify her with images of a sea serpent or dragon. ![]() In the second Chaoskampf Tiamat is considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos. In the first, she is a creator goddess, through a sacred marriage between different waters, peacefully creating the cosmos through successive generations. It is suggested that there are two parts to the Tiamat mythos. She is referred to as a woman and described as "the glistening one". She is the symbol of the chaos of primordial creation. In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat ( Akkadian: □□□□ D TI.AMAT or □□□ D TAM.TUM, Ancient Greek: Θαλάττη, romanized: Thaláttē) is a primordial goddess of the sea, mating with Abzû, the god of the groundwater, to produce younger gods. Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal impression from the eighth century BCE identified by several sources as a possible depiction of the slaying of Tiamat from the Enûma Eliš
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