Tiamat - EspañolDe Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre  Tiamat es una diosa/monstruo primitivo perteneciente a la mitología babilónica y destacable en el poema épico Enûma Elish. Tiamat sería el principio femenino, el mar, representación de las potencialidades del caos prístino. Monstruo hembra, maléfico en las leyendas babilónicas, el agua salada que en unión con Apsu (el principio masculino, el agua dulce) dieron nacimiento a dioses, y animales empezando con Lahmu y Lahamu (los manglares), pero al poco tiempo de crearlos, estos los molestaron con su ruido, el dios de la magia, Ea, logró someter a Apsu, dejándolo en un largo sopor (por eso es que el agua dulce está quieta)pero no pudo hacer nada contra Tiamat quien muy enfurecida con la muerte de su esposo creó una legión de demonios liderados por Kingu, que era su amante y uno de sus hijos. Los dioses decidieron darle todos sus poderes a Marduk, -hijo de Enki- este venció a Kingu, quien se quedó paralizado de miedo al verlo llegar, y luego a Tiamat, a la que hizo dejar la boca abierta con un vendaval y lanzó una flecha dentro del estómago. Después de esto, de la sangre de Kingu nacieron los humanos y a partir del cuerpo de Tiamat, que Marduk encadenó en los pozos del abismo y partió por la mitad, se creó, de su mitad superior el cielo y de su mitad inferior la tierra firme. Sus lágrimas se convirtieron en las nacientes del Tigris y el Éufrates. Esta leyenda es paralela con las de Vitra en la mitología hindú, Cipactli de la religión Azteca y Tifón en la mitología griega Categorías: Mitología babilónica | Mitología acadia | Mitología sumeria | Diosas madre Tiamat - InglésFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFor other uses, see Tiamat (disambiguation). In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is a goddess who personifies the sea. There are two parts to the Tiamat mythos, the first in which Tiamat is 'creatrix', through a "Sacred marriage" between salt and fresh water, peacefully creating the cosmos through successive generations. In the second "Chaoskampf" Tiamat is considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.(1) This shift in cosmological metaphors has been linked to the rise of Patriarchal power structures and the assumption of power by the monarchial "lugal" (Lu = Man, Gal = Big), during the Early Dynastic period of Sumerian History, and the institutionalisation of warfare(2). Although there are no early precedents for it, some sources identify her with images of a sea serpent or dragon.(3) In the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation, she gives birth to the first generation of deities; she later makes war upon them and is killed by the storm-god Marduk. The heavens and the earth are formed from her divided body. Tiamat was known as Thalattē (as variant of thalassa, the Greek word for "sea") in the Hellenistic Babylonian Berossus' first volume of universal history. It is thought that the name of Tiamat was dropped in secondary translations of the original religious texts because some Akkadian copyists of Enûma Elish substituted the ordinary word for "sea" for Tiamat, because the two names essentially were the same, due to association.(4)
(edit) Etymology
Thorkild Jacobsen(4) and Walter Burkert both argue for a connection with the Akkadian word for sea, tâmtu, following an early form, ti'amtum.(5) Tiamat could also have been derived from the Sumerian ti, life, and ama, mother.(6) Burkert continues by making a linguistic connection to Tethys. He finds the later form, thalatth, to be related clearly to Greek thalassa, "sea". The Babylonian epic Enuma Elish is named for its incipit: "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 "mixing their waters". It is thought that female deities are older than male ones in Mesopotamia and Tiamat may have begun as part of the cult of Nammu, a female principle of a watery creative force, with equally strong connections to the underworld, which predates the appearance of Ea-Enki.(7) Harriet Crawford finds this "mixing of the waters" to be a natural feature of the middle Persian Gulf, where fresh waters from the Arabian aquifer mix and mingle with the salt waters of the sea.(8) This characteristic is especially true of the region of Bahrain, whose name in Arabic means, "two seas", and which is thought to be the site of Dilmun, the original site of the Sumerian creation beliefs.(9) The difference in density of salt and fresh water, driving a perceptible separation. Tiamat also has been claimed to be cognate with West Semitic tehom (תהום) (the deeps, abyss), in the Book of Genesis 1.(10) (edit) AppearanceThough Tiamat is often described by modern authors as a sea serpent or dragon, no ancient texts exist in which there is a clear association with those kinds of creatures. The Enûma Elish specifically states that Tiamat did give birth to dragons and serpents, but they are included among a larger and more general list of monsters including scorpion men and merpeople, none of which imply that any of the children resemble the mother or are even limited to aquatic creatures. Within the Enûma Elish her physical description includes a tail, a thigh, "lower parts" (which shake together), a belly, an udder, ribs, a neck, a head, a skull, eyes, nostrils, a mouth, and lips. She has insides (possibly "entrails"), a heart, arteries, and blood. The strictly modern depiction of Tiamat as a multi-headed dragon was popularized in the 1970s as a fixture of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game inspired by earlier sources(who?) associating Tiamat with later mythological characters, such as Lotan(citation needed). (edit) MythologyApsu (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 (the Heavens, Biblical "Shemayim") and Ki (the Earth, Biblical "Eretz" created by Elohim in Genesis 1:1). 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 captured him, holding him prisoner beneath is temple the E-Abzu. 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.
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(11) 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,(12) is more recently dismissed as "distinctly improbable",(13) in fact, Marduk has no precise Sumerian prototype. (edit) Notes
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