Tiamat

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Tiamat
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Consort	Abzu
Children	Kingu, Lahamu, Lahmu

Ancient Mesopotamian religion
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Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal impression from the eighth century BCE identified by several sources as a possible depiction of the slaying of Tiamat from the Enûma Eliš^[1]^[2]

In the religion of ancient Babylon, Tiamat (Akkadian: