Tiamat,- in Sumerian and Akkadian denomination bare different definitions of this certain Goddess, It is described as deity because it was adopted as that by pre-Sumerian sources, it was portrayed as the primordial chaos because in the event of creation of a planet is the imagery the creation take place, "they" ( the Sumeriann) never first handedly experience mysticism of any of this Gods, it is all here-says of retell stories based on the creation of how it came to be life in earth. The Tiamat is usually interpreted as a Goddess who personifies the sea , in my realization "she" (or however directed) was the one, who bore life to earth by the collision with the early earth by a much bigger celestial body, which broke the planet in half releasing fair amount of debree from both bodies to create the new earth, and the moon is retell'd that it was brought or created from this event (within the studies is still unclear which one, since some sources retell that the moon is older than earth by around 1 billion years and others still say it was created few million years when the new earth came to be), with this new elements to make the new earth, the abyss were filled with waters that bore life forms similar to the other celestial body, "Nibiru" theorem, which somehow -Soulshroude- expanded in another thread.
"Apsu (or Abzu, from Sumerian ab = water, zu = far) fathered upon Tiamat the Elder deities Lahmu and Lahamu (the "muddy"), a title given to the gatekeepers at the Enki Abzu temple in Eridu. Lahmu and Lahamu, in turn, were the parents of the axis or pivot of the heavens (Anshar, from an = heaven, shar = axle or pivot) and the earth (Kishar); Anshar and Kishar were considered to meet on the horizon, becoming thereby, the parents of Anu and Ki.
Tiamat was the "shining" personification of salt water who roared and smote in the chaos of original creation. She and Apsu 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 Apsu, upset with the chaos they created, was planning to murder the younger deities; and so slew him. This angered Kingu, their son, who reported the event to Tiamat, whereupon she fashioned monsters to battle the deities in order to avenge Apsu's death. These were her own offspring: giant sea serpents, storm demons, fish-men, scorpion-men and many others.
Tiamat possessed the Tablets of Destiny and in the primordial battle she gave them to Kingu, the god she had chosen as her lover and the leader of her host. The deities gathered in terror, but Anu, (replaced later, first by Enlil and, in the late version that has survived after the First Dynasty of Babylon, by Marduk, the son of Ea), first extracting a promise that he would be revered as "king of the gods", overcame her, armed with the arrows of the winds, a net, a club, and an invincible spear.
And the lord stood upon Tiamat's hinder parts,
And with his merciless club he smashed her skull.
He cut through the channels of her blood,
And he made the North wind bear it away into secret places.
Slicing Tiamat in half, he made from her ribs the vault of heaven and earth. Her weeping eyes became the source of the Tigris and the Euphrates. With the approval of the elder deities, he took from Kingu the Tablets of Destiny, installing himself as the head of the Babylonian pantheon. Kingu was captured and later was slain: his red blood mixed with the red clay of the Earth would make the body of humankind, created to act as the servant of the younger Igigi deities.
The principal theme of the epic is the justified elevation of Marduk to command over all the deities. "It has long been realized that the Marduk epic, for all its local coloring and probable elaboration by the Babylonian theologians, reflects in substance older Sumerian material," E. A. Speiser remarked in 1942 adding "The exact Sumerian prototype, however, has not turned up so far." Without corroboration in surviving texts, this surmise that the Babylonian version of the story is based upon a modified version of an older epic, in which Enlil, not Marduk, was the god who slew Tiamat, is more recently dismissed as "distinctly improbable", in fact, Marduk has no precise Sumerian prototype",
So if in fact you somehow triggered a light in your acquisition of knowledge, you might know or get to think we have beings upon other beings in the universe. Makes "us" much more fragile beings of another scale of things, if you get to the degree of realization, designers of designers in conclusion, for all you know this could in fact be myths of an 'higher beings' given to us long ago, makes me smile.
