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Battle Between Marduk and Tiamat

Battle Between Marduk and Tiamat, Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal. Marduk was the Babylonian name of a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi rose to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon. Tiamat was a chaos monster, a primordial goddess of the ocean. She is often described by as a sea serpent or dragon. The Tiamat myth is one of the earliest recorded versions of the Chaoskampf, the battle between a culture hero and a chthonic or aquatic monster, serpent or dragon. A civil war between the gods was growing to a climactic battle. The Anunnaki gods gathered together to find one god who could defeat the gods rising against them. Marduk, a very young god, answered the call and was promised the position of head god. To prepare for battle, he made a net to encircle Tiamat within it, gathers the four winds so that no part of her could escape, creates seven new winds, and raises up his mightiest weapon, the rain-flood. He challenges the leader of the Anunnaki gods, the dragon of the primordial sea Tiamat, to single combat and defeats her by trapping her with his net, blowing her up with his winds, and piercing her belly with an arrow.
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Battle Between Marduk and Tiamat
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Traduction automatique: Bataille entre Marduk et Tiamat, sceau-cylindre néo-assyrien. Marduk était le nom babylonien d'un dieu de l'ancienne Mésopotamie et divinité protectrice de la ville de Babylone, qui, lorsque Babylone devint le centre politique de la vallée de l'Euphrate à l'époque d'Hammourabi, accéda à la position de chef du panthéon babylonien. Tiamat était un monstre du chaos, une déesse primordiale de l'océan. Elle est souvent décrite comme un serpent de mer ou un dragon. Le mythe de Tiamat est l'une des premières versions enregistrées du Chaoskampf, la bataille entre un héros culturel et un monstre chthonien ou aquatique, un serpent ou un dragon. Une guerre civile entre les dieux se transformait en une bataille décisive. Les dieux Anunnaki se sont rassemblés pour trouver un dieu capable de vaincre les dieux qui se dressaient contre eux. Marduk, un très jeune dieu, répondit à l'appel et se vit promettre le poste de dieu principal. Pour se préparer au combat, il a fabriqué un filet pour encercler Tiamat, rassemble les quatre vents afin qu'aucune partie d'elle ne puisse s'échapper, crée sept nouveaux vents et lève son arme la plus puissante, la pluie-inondation. Il défie le chef des dieux Anunnaki, le dragon de la mer primordiale Tiamat, en combat singulier et la vainc en la piégeant avec son filet, en la faisant exploser avec ses vents et en lui transperçant le ventre avec une flèche.
Battle Between Marduk and Tiamat, Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal. Marduk was the Babylonian name of a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi rose to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon. Tiamat was a chaos monster, a primordial goddess of the ocean. She is often described by as a sea serpent or dragon. The Tiamat myth is one of the earliest recorded versions of the Chaoskampf, the battle between a culture hero and a chthonic or aquatic monster, serpent or dragon. A civil war between the gods was growing to a climactic battle. The Anunnaki gods gathered together to find one god who could defeat the gods rising against them. Marduk, a very young god, answered the call and was promised the position of head god. To prepare for battle, he made a net to encircle Tiamat within it, gathers the four winds so that no part of her could escape, creates seven new winds, and raises up his mightiest weapon, the rain-flood. He challenges the leader of the Anunnaki gods, the dragon of the primordial sea Tiamat, to single combat and defeats her by trapping her with his net, blowing her up with his winds, and piercing her belly with an arrow.
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35.4 x 20.1 cm | 13.9 x 7.9 in (300 dpi)