Thorkild Jacobsen and Walter Burkert both argue for a connection with the Akkadian word for sea, tâmtu(𒀀𒀊𒁀), following an early form, ti'amtum. Marduk then forms the heavens and the Earth from her divided body. 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". Enraged, she also wars upon her husband's murderers, taking on the form of a massive sea 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. Some sources identify her with images of a sea serpent or dragon. In the second Chaoskampf Tiamat is considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos. 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 different waters, peacefully creating the cosmos through successive generations. She is the symbol of the chaos of primordial creation. In the religion of ancient Babylon, Tiamat ( Akkadian: 𒀭𒋾𒊩𒆳 D TI.AMAT or 𒀭𒌓𒌈 D TAM.TUM, Greek: Θαλάττη Thaláttē) is a primordial goddess of the sea, mating with Abzû, the god of the groundwater, to produce younger gods. 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
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