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Tiamat
Mythical Creature Monster Dragons
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Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is the sea, personified as a goddess, and a monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos. In the Enûma Elish,the Babylonian epic of creation, she gives birth to the first generation of gods; she later makes war upon them and is split in two by the storm-god Marduk, who uses her body to form the heavens and the earth. She was known as Thalattē (the Greek word for "sea") in the Hellenistic Babylonian Berossus' first volume of universal history, and some copyists of Enûma Elish slipped and substituted the ordinary word for "sea" for Tiamat.
Though Tiamat is often described by modern authors as a sea serpent or dragon, no ancient texts exist in which there is a clear association with those kind of creatures.
Though the Enûma Elish specifically states that Tiamat did give birth to dragons and serpents, they are included among a larger and more general list of monsters including scorpion men and merpeople, none of which imply that any of the children look like the mother or are even limited to aquatic creatures. Within the Enûma Elish her physical description includes, a tail, a thigh, "lower parts" (which shake together), a belly, an udder, ribs, a neck, a head, a skull, eyes, nostrils, a mouth, and lips.
The depiction of Tiamat as a multi-headed dragon was popularized in the 1970s as a fixture of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game thanks to earlier sources associating Tiamat with later mythological characters such as Lotan and others.
theres a temple in Iraq that has scrols that talks about the beast one of the scrols says that each head shots an elements so he fires 5 elements and they are Fire Water Darkness Light and Ice
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| Anonymous | Tiamat | 2 | Jan 9 2012, 4:50 AM EST by Anonymous | ||
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Thread started: Sep 29 2010, 7:02 PM EDT
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Weren't the Mesopotamians at all like the Egyptians.... didnt they draw things
They really should find at least some sort of depiction that doesnt come from a game like D&D |
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| Anonymous | Tiamat last picture | 1 | Dec 18 2011, 7:45 AM EST by Anonymous | ||
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Thread started: Dec 18 2011, 5:58 AM EST
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ummm.... thats not a tiamat. that a F.G.D. card picture from yu-gi-oh. its name is "properly" trasnlated to 'Five God Dragon'. its not a tiamat, even though it is REALLY close to one.
*sigh* this is the knowledge i have from being i nerd. i need a life XD |
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| Anonymous | mee | 0 | Jun 12 2010, 1:23 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||
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Thread started: Jun 12 2010, 1:23 AM EDT
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i want a pet one
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