The story of Tiamat and her eleven monsters derived from the Babylonian creation epic, the Enuma Elish, the epic exists in different versions both Babylonian and Assyrian. The best known version is the library of King Ashurbanipal dating from the 7th century BC. The legend, however, is much older is estimated to come from the 18th century BC, a time where the prominent status of the god Marduk, held the highest rank in the Babylonian pantheon, also occupies a central place in the story. The Enuma Elish was first discovered in 1849 by Henry Layard in Nieven and published by George Smith in 1876. It consists of seven tablets written thousands of lines, of which the fifth is badly damaged but has been completely restored. The central theme of the epic is the elevation of Marduk above all other Babylonian gods and their creation of the world and man's primeval darkness and chaos, which he penned within the structures of the order. The epic was recited in Babylon during the celebration of the new year, on the second day, a priest of Marduk recited a hymn about God's victory against Tiamat and its allies. On the third day, the artists made for holding two statues, one holding a snake and the other held a scorpion, both in their left hands, both animals represent monsters defeated Tiamat. On the fourth day, the priest recited the epic boss. On the sixth day, the heads of the statues were cut and burned, representing the fall of Tiamat's army. The following days were devoted to pray to the gods and eleventh day the gods were returned to their temples and the celebration ended. The epic had a similar status in Assyria, but with one big difference, was replaced by Ashur Marduk, the chief god of the Assyrian deities.
According to legend, in the beginning there was nothing but the primordial waters, fresh waters of Apsu and Tiamat's salt waters, the two primal gods, and Mummu, fog floating above the water. The primordial couple begat other deities, and the first was Lahmu Lahamu who became parents of Anshar and Kishar (identified with the sky and the earth) and they both had a son Anu, who was the father of Nudimmud the great among the gods (the god Ea). The young gods were loud and annoyed the two primal gods, Apsu and Tiamat. Apsu suggested that they should be murdered, but disagreed Tiamat. However, with the help of Mummu, he continued plotting the destruction of the gods. To prevent the murder, warned Nudimmud Tiamat, who put a spell on Apsu and killed him. From then on Nudimmud became the chief of the gods and his consort Damkina had a son, Marduk, who was more powerful than his father. But the other gods Tiamat convinced that she would seek revenge for the death of her husband. She took another consort, the god Kingu, and gave the command of his new army, the 11 terrible monsters she created to fight in the war. This 11 monsters representing his eleven dark powers who oppose the powers of light. Tiamat, also gave Kingu the Tablets of Destiny, the mystical emblem of supreme authority over the universe.These tables are sometimes identified with the concept of self, the divine decree, the power of the underlying foundation of all civilization: social institutions, religious practices, technology, and all moral and humane behavior. Until then, all these powers were entitled to the Mother Goddess, the supreme queen of the universe and all creation. The young gods Marduk chose as his squadron commander in the war and gave him power over the rooftops. Marduk defeated Tiamat and cut it into two parts, one of them formed the earth to the other, heaven, tears in her eyes created rivers and their breasts were formed mountains of the earth. He took the Tablets of Destiny from Kingu, and forced the gods who sided with Tiamat to work for him and the other gods. Finally, the killed Kingu and blood created man whose task was to replace the gods in their work. Babylon was established as the residence of the gods Marduk was elevated heads and getting fifty names in honor of his great powers.
Tiamat, the primordial goddess of the sea, was depicted as a monster, with a bestial and was imagined as a water snake or a dragon.However, not much is known about their appearance of myth itself. In this regard, it is identified with the sea monsters from other mythologies, like Leviathan or Yamm, Lotan of Hebrew myths or Tannin, the sea demon of Hebrew legends. Etymologically the name corresponds to the Greek word thalassa "sea", tehom Semitic "abyss", the Akkadian tamtu ti'amtum and "sea" and loves you and Sumerian meaning "life" and "mother". There are many theories about the meaning of myth, where the original state of the "mixing of the waters" is interpreted as the meeting between salt and fresh water in the Persian Gulf, the creation of the gods and monsters are thought referring to the elevation of volcanoes and tectonic movements and the battle between Tiamat and Marduk is considered a cosmic catastrophe existing planets which were created. There is no unanimous interpretation, these myths provide space for large theories. Tiamat is the Ummu-HUBUR who formed all, the name "HUBUR" refers to the rivers of the underworld. She also refers to the Hebrew concept of Tehom, the great depths of the primordial waters of creation. Tiamat and Apsu embody the cosmic abyss filled with primordial energies that are the source of creation.
The ancient Mesopotamians believed that the world was a flat circular disc, surrounded by salt water. The land was a continent floating in a second sea, freshwater Apsu, the flowing waters of all the earth, cascas, rivers, lakes, etc. The sky was a solid album that was upon the earth. The sky and the interior of the gods were above the sky. Tiamat is the universal mother who gave life to all creation in her womb, the salt water. This was the original place of residence of the gods even before Marduk created the earth and chose Babylon as his residence, while the gods moved to live in heaven. Marduk did not have the raw power of creation, his power was divine discourse, an attribute of all patriarchal gods of the world religions. In Enumma Elish, he had to prove he possessed this power before being allowed to fight Tiamat. He possessed an outfit that had to destroy and rebuild the power of speech before it was recognized by the gods as their champion. In this sense, the mother of creation Tiamat is sometimes identified with the Sumerian goddess Nammu, the primeval waters lady who gave birth to An and Ki, heaven and earth, was often seen as the constellation of the sky North now known as "whale". In ancient times its name was the sea monster: Tiamat or Cetus, located in the region of the sky known as water, related to other aquatic constellations like Aquarius, Pisces and Eridanus.
In the Kabbalah, Tehom is the name of the first seven "rooms hell" which correspond to the Qlipoth. The Qlipoth with "shells", the land of evil, the dark side of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. They are inhabited by demons and evil spirits responsible for all the evil in the world. The anti-Qlipoth are Sephirots structure of the Tree of Life, and while there are ten Sephirots mean unity and perfection of God, there are eleven Qlipoth disturbing the original balance represented by the number ten. The highest Qlipha, Thaumiel, which is the opposite of Kether, is split in two and is known as the Twin Gods. Each represents an aspect Qlipha corresponding adverse Sephira and is considered his anti-polo. These forces are sometimes identified with the eleven powers of Tiamat and her eleven demons. All Qliphotico tree is dark, feminine and female deities personified by, most of the time is is Lilith, who embodies the forces of chaos that exist outside the structures of creation and beyond the emanations of the Divine Light . In the myth, Marduk defeats Tiamat and its monsters but not destroyed.Instead, make an attempt to tame and suppress these forces including them in a new structure of the universe. Tiamat soldiers turned their trophies, were unarmed and many of them became servants of Marduk, and then watched as their symbolic animals. This happened for example with snake mušuššu. Tiamat became part of the world as living nature and embody the concept of "mother earth." Kingu's blood is believed to flow in humans. The primeval chaos archfiends are now part of the cosmic order.
The eleven monsters are mentioned in the Enuma Elish with terms about nature or species, but their names were not. Many of these terms are plural and can refer to a group of entities. The Babylonian epic literature contains analyzes of the creatures from a linguistic perspective and proposes some metaphorical possibilities, as their astrological connection, an area which the Babylonians had great handling. In this paper, we aim to analyze the monsters of Tiamat from an esoteric perspective and exploring their magical powers and can manifest as the modern practitioner. This analysis is esoteric part of a material that was collected during a project undertaken by the magic Magan lodge in the years 2007-2009. The ongoing project but the first two phases have been completed and the results are presented in this paper. The purpose of these two phases was to find information about the nature of these 11 entities, their magical powers and how they can be used in individual practice. This information will be included in the description of each particular entity. They are dark and destructive powers eleven of Tiamat and some of them can be compared with the Qabalistic Tree Qliphoticas forces of Night.
From mythology we learn that they had "sharp teeth and fangs ruthlessly", their bodies had poison instead of blood, "taught terror", covered with glory, were seen as gods and were powerful. Those who came were invaded by terror and no one could resist their attacks.Soil is referring to them as "matchless weapons" and are listed in the following order: snakes and dragons, monster Lahamu, hurricanes, rabid dogs, scorpion-men, storms, and men-mink
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