Tiamat/is

Tíamat og Marduk

 
Hluti af greinaröð um Sólarkerfi

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   Sólin    Helíos og Vesta Musteri sólarinnar Sólblettir

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   Reikistjörnur    Merkúr Venus Frelsisstjarnan (Jörðin) Mars Júpíter Satúrnus Úranus Neptúnus Plútó

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   Fyrrum plánetur    Tíamat Hedron Maldek

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   Aðrir hnettir    Tunglið Lilið Vúlkan Smástirni Halastjörnur Halastjarnan Kóhoutek

Í babýlonskri goðafræði er „Tíamat“ kvenkyns óreiðuvaldið (táknað sem stjórnleysi, ólgusjó eða kraftar saltvatnsins) sem tekur á sig mynd dreka. Hún er lýst sem óvinur guða ljóss og laga.

Sköpunarsaga Babýlons

Eins og sagan er sögð í Babýlonsku sköpunarsögunni, voru Tíamat og eiginmaður hennar, Aspu (frumfaðirinn, persónugervingur hafsins, djúpsins, krafta ferskvatnsins), til ásamt syni þeirra, Mummu, áður en himinn og jörð voru sköpuð. Eftir að kynslóðir af guðum komu frá Aspu og Tíamat, ákvað Aspu, reiður út í þessar ólgusömu og háværu verur sem trufluðu fyrri frið hans, að losna við nýju guðina. Einn þeirra, Ea, frétti af þessu og eyddi Aspu áður en hann gat hrint áformum sínum í framkvæmd.

The vengeful Tiamat thus became the formidable enemy of the new gods, until she and the forces of chaos (including enormous dragons and serpents which she created as her allies) were at last overcome by Marduk, the great god of Babylon, who then fashioned the heavens and the earth and organized the universe. In another variation of the creation legend, Tiamat represents the subterranean waters of chaos, the elementary principle from which the earth arose in the form of a mountain.

Zechariah Sitchin’s theories

Zecharia Sitchin interprets the creation myth as a tale of the creation of our solar system: In the beginning before the formation of the other planets, there was only Aspu (the Sun), Mummu (Mercury), and Tiamat. Tiamat (the “missing planet”) was later split in half when it collided with the satellites of Marduk, a large planet drawn into this solar system by the gravitational pull of Neptune. Tiamat’s upper half, along with her chief satellite, became Earth and her moon; her lower half, shattered by Marduk during its second orbit, became the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Sitchin suggests that in this series of events Marduk transferred the seed of life to Earth, giving her “the biological and complex early forms of life for whose early appearance there is no other explanation.” He says that at the time the human species on Earth was just beginning to stir, Marduk had already evolved into a planet with high levels of civilization and technology.

According to Sitchin, Marduk is caught in a large elliptical orbit around the Sun and returns to the site of the collision between Jupiter and Mars every 3,600 Earth-years. He calls Marduk “the Twelfth Planet” after the ancient Sumerians’ scheme of this solar system, which depicts 12 celestial bodies—the Sun, the moon, and 10 planets.

For more information

See the following works by Zecharia Sitchin: The 12th Planet (New York: Avon Books, 1976), pp. 204, 210–34, 255–56; The Stairway to Heaven (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980), pp. 88–90.

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Lost Teachings on Your Higher Self, pp. 284–86.