Creation

Enuma Elish

Tiamat versus Marduk is a thirty-two-century-old Babylonian myth, Creation Epic, social allegory. Tiamat was one of the first entities of the cosmos, sometimes repre-sented as a giant, fiery, female dragon-like monster in command of an army of demons and monsters, and sometimes as the swirling, watery Chaos of the Universe prior to the creation of life. She would sabotage the work of the younger gods with magic and destructive rage. After so many failed efforts, a hero emerged from the young gods in the form of the four-eyed, four-mouthed Marduk. Marduk wielded a magic net and had at his command the Four Winds, two factors that contributed to his eventual conquest over Tiamat, after a long and terrible battle. He subsequently used her carcass to form Heaven and Earth. Marduk was made King of the Gods. He created Babylon and human beings to dwell there and toil for the gods. He created Language and established Order amongst the ranks of beings.