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The battle of Tiamat and Marduk (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Arrow
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.07 Symbolism of weapons, tools and implements
02.07.01 Weapons and tools
02.07.01.01 Arrow
Enūma eliš (creation)
04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
04.01 Myths
04.01.04 Enūma eliš (creation)
Marduk (Lordship, Mercy)
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism)
01.04.03.05 Great gods
01.04.03.05.06 Marduk (Lordship, Mercy)
Net
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.07 Symbolism of weapons, tools and implements
02.07.01 Weapons and tools
02.07.01.06 Net
Primordial battle and defeat of the Dragon
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas
01.01.06 Primordial battle and defeat of the Dragon
Tiamat = angry sea = dragon
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas
01.01.05 Emergence of chaos
01.01.05.01 Tiamat = angry sea = dragon

Keywords
Marduk
theomachia
Tiamat

Period
No period specified

Channel
Akkadian poetry

Text
Enūma Eliš 4.93-104:
Tiamat and Marduk, sage of the gods, drew close for battle, they locked in single combat, joining for the fray. The Lord spread out his net, encircled her, the ill wind he had held behind him he released in her face. Tiamat opened her mouth to swallow, he thrust in the ill wind so she could not close her lips. The raging winds bloated her belly, her insides were stopped up, she gaped her mouth wide. He shot off the arrow, it broke open her belly, it cut to her innards, it pierced the heart. He subdued her and snuffed out her life, he flung down her carcass, he took his stand upon it.

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Enūma Eliš 4.93-104

Bibliography

Foster 1993, 375

Foster, Benjamin. Before the Muses. Ann Arbor: CDL Press 1993.

Amar Annus

URL for this entry: http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/database/gen_html/a0000495.php

Illustrations (click an image to view the full-size version in a new window)

Fig. 1: A modern impression of a Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal (BM 89589), depicting the forces of chaos led by Tiamat being defeated by Marduk (taken from Collon 1987, fig. 850).

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