Tiamat

Though the competitive concept of creation was that the universe came into being as a result of war between two persons or forces for example Ishtar and Ereshkigal, Tiamat and Apsu, Yazdan i.e.

(12.) As Chana told me, "the face of deep" (penei tehom) resonated for her with the ancient Babylonian myth of Tiamat, the primordial goddess.

Meanwhile three more ships, Hansa America, Tiamat Gas and LNG Palu carrying Containers, LPG and LNG also arrived at outer anchorage of Port Qasim during last 24 hours.

Five ships, DA Kang, Da Dan Xia, Endeavour Strait, Tiamat Gas and Nagig-8 Sky carrying General Cargo, Coal, LPG and Palm oil are expected to take berths at MW-1 MW-2, MW-4, SSGC and LCT respectively on Wednesday.

Two ships, Priority and Tiamat Gas carrying Containers and LPG are expected to take berths at Container Terminal and SSGC Terminal respectively on Thursday.

He follows Lambert's (2013: 132) restoration and rendering of VII 161-62: i-n[a-an-n]a-am-ma za-ma-ru sa marutuk / [sa] ti-[amat i]k-muma il-qu-u sar-ru-ti, "Here is now the song of Marduk, [Who] defeated Tiamat and took kingship," and argues that line 162 reflects the core of the composition.

In any case, the tradition opens here toward old memory and ancient typology, where the cast of deities morphs continuously, promiscuously, and irrepressibly across boundaries and polities and times: Tiamat of Urduk and Marni Wata of the Fon, Boann of the Boyne and Gong Gong of the Xiang, Yam of Canaanite fame, Osiris of the cusp of Nile and the Sirens of ocean seduction in Greece, Agwe of Haiti and Ahti of the Finns, Sedna of the Inuit seas and the Kyrgyz Martuv, Tohora of the Maori and Paricia of the Inca, and the list goes on and on, as ribald and twisting as a strand of DNA in the mouth of a clam.

In Babylon, for instance, ostriches were associated with the goddess Tiamat, while Harry Potter's owl Hedwig is a Snowy Owl, widely considered in northern countries as an icon of bravery and a revealer of truths.

For help they turn to a local priest, who turns out to be much more, to guide them on a quest to rescue their daughter, Ur, from an ancient being known as Tiamat.

And while I read her theology in order to find salvation, and its promise was hovering in every high place, I, I like those mystical women, women-feminists, poetesses, strugglers against patriarchy that strive tirelessly and gracefully for freedom beyond confession, I, 1 could not escape the ghost of Tiamat's corpse.

There, after the god Marduk defeats the sea goddess Tiamat, the story concludes with the building of the Esaglia Temple in Babylon, where Marduk is to be worshipped as "the great creator of all things" (p.