Tiamat
c. 1800 BCE – 100 BCEattested
Babylon
- Mesopotamian
The salt sea personified, mother of the first gods and then their enemy. Marduk killed her and split her body in two to make the sky and the earth.
Known for
- primordial salt sea
- mother of monsters
- the body becomes the cosmos
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.