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Qingu, also spelled Kingu (𒀭𒆥𒄖, d kin-gu, lit. ' unskilled laborer '), was a god in Babylonian mythology, and the son of the gods Abzu and Tiamat. [1] After the murder of his father, Apsu, he served as the consort of his mother, Tiamat, who wanted to establish him as ruler and leader of all gods before she was killed by Marduk.
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 Enuma Elish substituted the ordinary word tāmtu ('sea') for Tiamat, the two names having become essentially the same due to association. [5]
Tiamat attacks Ritsuka, Mash, and Merlin with her Mystic Eyes of Petrification, but they are saved by the timely arrival of Ushiwakamaru. Enraged, Tiamat attacks the Northern Wall directly, prompting Leonidas to mobilize. As a Greek hero and a descendant of Zeus, Leonidas recognizes Tiamat the Greek beast Gorgon.
In this story, he was a primal being made of fresh water and a lover to another primal deity, Tiamat, a creature of salt water. The Enūma Eliš begins: "When above the heavens (e-nu-ma e-liš) did not yet exist nor the earth below, Apsû the freshwater ocean was there, the first, the begetter, and Tiamat, the saltwater sea, she who bore them all;
Not only is the narrative parallel significant, [21] but so is the fact that Dione's name is a feminization of Zeus's own, just as Antu is a feminine form of Anu. [21] Dione does not appear throughout the rest of the Iliad, in which Zeus's consort is instead the goddess Hera. [21] Burkert therefore concludes that Dione is a calque of Antu. [21]
Ghatotkacha was the son of the Pandava Bhima and the demoness Hidimbi, and thus a half-human, half-demon hybrid. He is the father of Anjanaparva, Barbarika and Meghavarna. As the head of one akshauhini army, he was an important fighter from the Pandava side in the Kurukshetra war and caused a great deal of destruction to the Kaurava army.
Bhagadatta (Sanskrit: भगदत्त) was the son of Narakasura and grandson of Lord Shree Adivaraha, and the king of Pragjyotisha in Hindu mythology.Bhagadatta was born from a limb of the asura called Bashkala. [1]
[2] [3] Bhishma was given the name Devavrata (देवव्रत) at his birth, meaning one who is devoted to Gods. [ 4 ] As Bhishma was the only surviving son of Ganga, he was given many epithets which mean "son of Ganga" — Gangaputra (गंगापुत्र), Gang (गंग), Gangasuta (गंगासुत) and Gangeya ...