Tiamat, Watercolor Mermaid Goddess

by Pamela Smale Williams

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1555.000 x 1149.000 pixels

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Tiamat, Watercolor Mermaid Goddess

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Pamela Smale Williams

Medium

Mixed Media - Watercolor And Digital Art

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TIAMAT, goddess of salt water in ancient Babylonia, sits upon limestone with her back to the chaos of the Universe. Combined watercolor, ink, and digital artistry, Tiamat is part of my MERMAID, MYTH and MAGIC COLLECTION.

ABOUT WATER AND SYMBOLISM: Water is the perfect medium to describe emotion. A liquid that reacts to temperatures, surroundings, containers to hold it... reflecting the colors and shapes appearing next to it.
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In the ancient Babylonian religion, TIAMAT is a primordial goddess of the salt sea, mating with Abzû, the god of fresh water, to produce younger gods. She is the symbol of the chaos of primordial creation. She is referred to as a woman, and described as 'the glistening one'. It is suggested that there are two parts to the Tiamat mythos, the first in which Tiamat is a creator goddess, through a sacred marriage between salt and fresh water, peacefully creating the cosmos through successive generations.

For ages, sages debated whether the goddess of Sumerian myths, Tiamat, actually was a deity or not. Many believed she was the archetype of evil dragonkind, a devil or demon, the avatar of another deity or even a mortal dragon so powerful that chromatic dragons revered her as their queen and creator. The fact is that Tiamat was actually a goddess of the Sea. As her name indicates, she was a deification of the PRIMORDIAL SEA.
The myth Enūma Eliš begins with a description of the two primeval seas, the salt sea Tiamat and the fresh sea Abzu, mingling their waters together to create the gods. In the battle between Abzu and Ea, Tiamat attempts to appease Abzu and stop the conflict. A relief from the temple of Bêl in Palmyra depicts Nabu and Marduk slaying Tiamat, who is shown with a woman's body and legs made of snakes.

In the second Chaoskampf, Tiamat is considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos. Some sources identify her with images of a sea serpent or dragon.
In the "Enûma Elish", the Babylonian epic of creation, she gives birth to the first generation of deities; her husband, Apsu, correctly assuming they are planning to kill him and usurp his throne, later makes war upon them and is killed. Enraged, she, too, wars upon her husband's murderers, taking on the form of a massive sea dragon, she is then slain by Enki's son, the storm-god Marduk, but not before she had brought forth the monsters of the Mesopotamian pantheon, including the first dragons, whose bodies she filled with "poison instead of blood". Marduk then forms heavens and the earth from her divided body.

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