Mythology - Tiamat

Tiamat is part of the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation myth. Amidst the primordial chaos of the universe existed the God Apsu, depicted as an endless body of fresh water, and his wife Tiamat, a body of salt water. From the mixture of these two waters came a line of gods representing the core elements of earth and sky.

The young gods were wild and disruptive and Apsu plotted to kill them. Ea, son of the sky God Anu, overheard Apsu’s plot and slew him instead. Enraged, Tiamat leads a war against the younger Gods only to be slain herself by Ea’s son, Marduk. Marduk fashions the world and all of its peoples from Tiamat’s blood and bones.