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In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat (Akkadian: 𒀭𒋾𒀀𒆳 D TI.AMAT or 𒀭𒌓𒌈 D TAM.TUM, Ancient Greek: Θαλάττη, romanized: Thaláttē) [1] is the primordial sea, mating with Abzû (Apsu), the groundwater, to produce the gods in the Babylonian epic Enûma Elish, which translates as "when on high."
This has suggested the meaning of Hubur to be "river of fertility in the underworld". [6] Linda Foubister has suggested the river of creation was linked with the importance of rivers and rain in the fertile crescent and suggested it was related to the underworld as rivers resemble snakes . [ 7 ]
In early, now obsolete, translations it was erroneously assumed that Mummu is mentioned alongside Tiamat. [17] Mummu is also the thirty-fourth name bestowed upon Marduk in the final section of the composition. [30] He is described as the creator of heaven and earth in the corresponding passage, which reflects the meaning of this title. [6]
A fragmentary late neo-Assyrian god list appears to consider her and another figure regarded as the wife of Anu, Urash, as one and the same, and refers to "Ki-Urash." [403] Kittum: Bad-Tibira, Rahabu [404] Kittum was a daughter of Utu and Sherida. [405] Her name means "Truth". [405] Kus: Kus is a god of herdsmen referenced in the Theogony of ...
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;
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.
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Vaishnavism, Shaivism, and Shaktism worship the Hindu deities Vishnu, Shiva, and Devi as the Supreme God respectively, or consider all Hindu deities as aspects of the same, Supreme Reality or the eternal and formless metaphysical Absolute, called Brahman in Hinduism, or, translated from Sanskrit terminology, Svayaṁ-Bhāgavan ("God Itself").