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In
Tiamat - Mythological Creatures and Beasts 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.Tiamat - Mythological Creatures and Beasts

















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Tiamat was actually a wyrm, a powerful one at that, and in some cultures the rival of bahamut the metallic and wise (sub)dragon
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