Comparisons can also be drawn with the Mesopotamian monster Tiamat and its slaying by Babylonian chief god Marduk.

" Yam, Judge Nahar " also has similarities with Mesopotamian Tiamat and Abzu and the battle between Yam and Baal ( the Storm God ) resembles the battle in Hurrian and Hittite mythology between the sky God Teshub ( or Tarhunt ) with the serpent Illuyanka.

The name is taken from Tiamat, a goddess in ancient Mesopotamian mythology who is substantially different ( and does not have multiple heads ).

This topos can be traced to the Chaoskampf of the mythology of the Ancient Near East ( e. g. Hadad vs. Yam, Marduk vs. Tiamat, Teshub vs. Illuyanka, etc.

In other stories, the universe is created by crafting it from pre-existing materials, such as the corpse of a dead god — as from Tiamat in the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish or from the giant Ymir in Norse mythology – or from chaotic materials, as in Izanagi and Izanami in Japanese mythology.

In Sumerian mythology, Nammu ( also Namma, spelled ideographically < sup > d </ sup > NAMMA = < sup > d </ sup > ENGUR ) was a primeval goddess, corresponding to Tiamat in Babylonian mythology.

In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is a chaos monster, a primordial goddess of the ocean, mating with Abzû ( the god of fresh water ) to produce younger gods.

Parallels also exist outside of Indo-European mythology, for example the Babylonian myths of Marduk slaying the dragon Tiamat.

She is named after the Tiamat of Babylonian mythology.

Kingu, also spelled Qingu, meaning " unskilled laborer ," was a god in Babylonian mythology, and — after the murder of his father Apsu — the consort of the goddess Tiamat, his mother, who wanted to establish him as ruler and leader of all gods before she was slain by Marduk.

In most settings, Tiamat is somewhat minor ; in Dragonlance, she is a major figure in the mythology and history of the world.

In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, Tiamat is one of the few surviving gods of the Untheric pantheon ( based on Sumerian and Babylonian mythology ), battled Marduk in ages past, and is also a member of the draconic pantheon, daughter of Io, the slayer of Gilgeam the God-king of Unther, '" Nemesis of the Gods ".

Tiamat is a chaos monster in Babylonian mythology.

Obviously the name means “ aboriginal abyss ,” or in the terser German, Urgrund, and we have reason to believe it to be a translation of the Babylonian Tiamat, “ the Deep .”< p > The Chinese legend tells us that P ’ an-Ku ’ s bones changed to rocks ; his flesh to earth ; his marrow, teeth and nails to metals ; his hair to herbs and trees ; his veins to rivers ; his breath to wind ; and his four limbs became pillars marking the four corners of the world, — which is a Chinese version not only of the Norse myth of the Giant Ymir, but also of the Babylonian story of Tiamat .< p > Illustrations of P ’ an-Ku represent him in the company of supernatural animals that symbolize old age or immortality, viz., the tortoise and the crane ; sometimes also the dragon, the emblem of power, and the phoenix, the emblem of bliss .< p > When the earth had thus been shaped from the body of P ’ an-Ku, we are told that three great rivers successively governed the world: first the celestial, then the terrestrial, and finally the human sovereign.

But then, with the universe still threatened, Tiamat, with the imprisonment of her husand and consort Abzu and at the prompting of her son and vizier Kingu, decides to take back the creation herself.

After dispatching Tiamat with the " arrows of his winds " down her throat ( similar in some respects to how Elohim moves his breath ( ruach ) over the " face of the deep " or " Tehom ", in Genesis 1: 2 ) and reconstructing the heavens with the arch of her ribs, Enlil places her tail in the sky as the Milky Way, and her crying eyes become the source of the Tigris and Euphrates.

From it emerged two primary gods, the male Apsu and female Tiamat, and a third deity who is the maker Mummu and his power for the progression of cosmogonic births to begin.

In the decade which followed, artists who began their careers outside of the progressive milieu, such as Sweden's Tiamat ( originally a death / doom act ), Green Carnation and Opeth ( both formed in the death metal mould ), developed a progressive sound and became identified with the progressive metal genre.

Some of the most significant of these deities were Anu, Ea, Enlil, Ishtar ( Astarte ), Ashur, Shamash, Tammuz, Adad / Hadad, Sin ( Nanna ), Dagan, Ninurta, Nisroch, Nergal, Tiamat, Bel and Marduk.

In the Epic of Creation, dated to 1200 BCE, it explains that the god Marduk killed the mother goddess Tiamat and used half her body to create the earth, and the other half to create both the paradise of šamû and the netherworld of irṣitu.

Another epic was that of the " Creation " Enûma Eliš, whose object was to glorify Bel-Marduk by describing his contest with Tiamat, the dragon of chaos.

Then comes the story of the struggle between the gods of light and the powers of darkness, and the final victory of Marduk, who clove Tiamat asunder, forming the heaven from half of her body and the earth from the other.

Burkert sees in the name a transformation of Akkadian tiamtu or tâmtu, " the sea ," which is recognizable in Tiamat.

To prepare for battle, he makes a bow, fletches arrows, grabs a mace, throws lightning before him, fills his body with flame, makes a net to encircle Tiamat within it, gathers the four winds so that no part of her could escape, creates seven nasty new winds such as the whirlwind and tornado, and raises up his mightiest weapon, the rain-flood.

First, he challenges the leader of the Anunnaki gods, the dragon of the primordial sea Tiamat, to single combat and defeats her by trapping her with his net, blowing her up with his winds, and piercing her belly with an arrow.

Then, he proceeds to defeat Kingu, who Tiamat put in charge of the army and wore the Tablets of Destiny on his breast, and " wrested from him the Tablets of Destiny, wrongfully his " and assumed his new position.

* Tiamat — An oceanic planet whose sun orbits a black hole, socially divided into two moieties ( Summer and Winter ), ruled by a queen with abrupt changes in social conditions every 150 years.

According to Sitchin, Nibiru ( whose name was replaced with MARDUK in original legends by the Babylonian ruler of the same name in an attempt to co-opt the creation for himself, leading to some confusion among readers ) collided catastrophically with Tiamat ( a goddess in the Babylonian creation myth the Enûma Eliš ), which he considers to be another planet once located between Mars and Jupiter.

Sitchin states that when struck by one of planet Nibiru's moons, Tiamat split in two, and then on a second pass Nibiru itself struck the broken fragments and one half of Tiamat became the asteroid belt.

The association of the serpent with a monstrous opponent overcome by a heroic deity has its roots in the mythology of the Ancient Near East, including Canaanite ( Hebrew, Ugaritic ), Hittite and Mesopotamian.

** Epic of Gilgamesh ( Mesopotamian mythology )

** Atrahasis ( Mesopotamian mythology )

Although mythical elements are not so prominent in Exodus as in Genesis, the echoes of ancient legends are crucial to understanding the book's origins and purpose: for example, the story of the infant Moses's salvation from the Nile has its basis in an earlier legend of king Sargon, while the story of the parting of the Red Sea trades on Mesopotamian creation mythology.

* Mesopotamian mythology

Hittite religion and mythology were heavily influenced by their Hattic, Mesopotamian, and Hurrian counterparts.

Scholars of Mesopotamian mythology, however, suggest that Adapa was likely associated with fishing and depicted in half-fish form many centuries before the story of Jonah appeared.

* Mesopotamian mythology: Shedu had a bull body and a human head.

Many scholars believe that Noah and the Biblical Flood story are derived from the Mesopotamian version, predominantly because Biblical mythology that is today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandeanism shares overlapping consistency with far older written ancient Mesopotamian story of The Great Flood, and that the early Hebrews were known to have lived in Mesopotamia.

In Mesopotamian mythology, Etana searches for a ' plant of birth ' to provide him with a son.

In Mesopotamian religion and mythology, Enki, also known as Ea, was the God of wisdom and intelligence.

What we know about Mesopotamian religion comes from archaeological evidence uncovered in the region, particularly literary sources, which are usually written in cuneiform on clay tablets and which describe both mythology and cultic practices.

Although it mostly died out 1600 to 1700 years ago, Mesopotamian religion has still had an influence on the modern world, predominantly because Biblical mythology that is today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandeanism shares some overlapping consistency with ancient Mesopotamian myths, in particular the Creation Myth, the Garden of Eden, The Great Flood, Tower of Babel and figures such as Nimrod and Lilith ( the Assyrian Lilitu ).

Mesopotamian religion, culture, history and mythology has influenced some forms of music.

Category: Mesopotamian mythology

Category: Mesopotamian mythology

In Mesopotamian mythology Ningishzida, a prototype of the Biblical serpent in the Garden of Eden, is sometimes depicted as a serpent with horns.

Category: Mesopotamian mythology

* Mesopotamian mythology

* An ( Mesopotamian mythology ), a god in Sumerian and Babylonian mythology