Tiamat

[ tyah-maht ]

noun

1. an Akkadian goddess, the consort of Apsu and mother of the gods.

Example Sentences

Tiamat then creates light, the heavens, dry land, animals, and man.

From The Daily Beast

The world is presented as a watery chaos (the sea monster Tiamat), which then splits to create heaven and earth.

From The Daily Beast

Tiamat, the female dragon, is more powerful than her husband Apsu, who is slain by his son Ea.

From Project Gutenberg

There may well have been Babylonians who held higher conceptions of God and nature than those given in the Tiamat myth.

From Project Gutenberg

Orion—Merodach—must have been likewise a god, the great-great-grandson of Tiamat, whom he destroys.

From Project Gutenberg

On monuments and cylinders he is represented as armed with the weapon with which he despatched the monster Tiamat.

From Project Gutenberg

It was the victory of Merodach over Tiamat,'the deep,' the personification of chaos and elemental anarchy.

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