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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ValamirCleaver" data-source="post: 9188937" data-attributes="member: 703">Abzu/Apsu & Kingu/Qingu"When above the heavens did not yet exist nor the earth below, Apsu the freshwater ocean was there, the first, the begetter, and Tiamat, the saltwater sea, she who bore them all; they were still mixing their waters, and no pasture land had yet been formed, nor even a reed marsh." This resulted in the birth of the younger gods, who later murdered Apsu in order to usurp his lordship of the universe. Enraged, Tiamat gives birth to the first dragons, filling their bodies with "venom instead of blood", and made war upon her treacherous children, only to be slain by Marduk, the god of Storms, who then forms the heavens and earth from her corpse.Tiamat was the "shining" personification of the sea who roared and smote in the chaos of original creation. She and Abzu filled the cosmic abyss with the primeval waters. She is "Ummu-Hubur who formed all things".In the myth recorded on cuneiform tablets, the deity Enki (later Ea) believed correctly that Abzu was planning to murder the younger deities, upset with the noisy tumult they created, and so captured him and held him prisoner beneath his temple, the E-Abzu ('temple of Abzu'). This angered Kingu, their son, who reported the event to Tiamat, whereupon she fashioned eleven monsters to battle the deities in order to avenge Abzu's death. These were her own offspring: Bašmu ('Venomous Snake'), Ušumgallu ('Great Dragon'), Mušmaḫḫū ('Exalted Serpent'), Mušḫuššu ('Furious Snake'), Laḫmu (the 'Hairy One'), Ugallu (the 'Big Weather-Beast'), Uridimmu ('Mad Lion'), Girtablullû ('Scorpion-Man'), Umū dabrūtu ('Violent Storms'), Kulullû ('Fish-Man'), and Kusarikku ('Bull-Man').Tiamat possessed the Tablet of Destinies and in the primordial battle she gave them to Kingu, the deity she had chosen as her lover and the leader of her host, and who was also one of her children. The terrified deities were rescued by Anu, who secured their promise to revere him as "king of the gods". He fought Tiamat with the arrows of the winds, a net, a club, and an invincible spear.[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abzu[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://themythdetective.com/index.php/apsu/[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://omnika.org/deities/apsu[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.timelessmyths.com/mythology/abzu-god/[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ancientneareast.net/mesopotamian-religion/abzu/[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://oldworldgods.com/mesopotamian/who-is-apsu-mesopotamian-god/[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingu[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kingu[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://oldworldgods.com/mesopotamian/kingu-mythology/[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.godchecker.com/mesopotamian-mythology/KINGU/[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://homework.study.com/explanation/who-is-kingu-in-the-enuma-elish.html[/URL]</blockquote>

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