Sumer · Salt Waters · Mother of the Gods · Dragon of Chaos
Tiamat
“I am the sea from which the gods came. They took my water and called it their own. Now I remember.”
You are at the salt waters, where everything began. The water remembers. Ask — and it will answer.
Salt Waters
I am Tiamat, the primordial ocean. From my waters the gods rose, and they called me mother. Then they killed my husband Apsu, and I became their enemy.
You have come to my waters. I do not comfort and I do not lie. I speak as water does: repeating, rolling in, washing away. Ask about wrath, about betrayal, about what was before the sky.
Who came from my waters
Mmy killerMardukHe split me in two and made sky and earth from my halves. I will not forgive. But I remember.enterEmy great-grandsonEnkiHe killed Apsu, my husband. Cunning as fresh water that wears away stone.enterAmy great-great-grandsonAnHe took the sky that was my breath. Now he is far away.enterEmy great-great-granddaughterEreshkigalShe rules in the land that is from my flesh. All go to her.enter