Chaldean

Here we see the return to the heavens of the God Ashur, whose name was replaced in
the Babylonian by their patron-deity, MARDUK. He is dethroned from his Faravahar
winged-disc, and has drawn his bow and arrow against a terrible foe in the heavens.
The Enuma Elish describes this terifying “War in the Heavens” between Marduk and
Tiamat but briefly, wile the Book of Enki, drawing also from cylinder seals, provides a
much fuller picture. According to the eldest mythological narrative known to man
on earth, MARDUK ascended into the heavens to do battle against TIAMAT, a terrible
dragon. In truth, the whole myth is merely a description for the ocassional 6,000 year
cyclical “Grand Cross” alignment of the seven planets in the sign of Taurus near the
archer’s arrow in the constellation of Orion.
The depiction of TIAMAT as a dragon-constellation plays in also to the origin of the 12
mansions of the zodiac having derived from the 12 planets of Sumer, including both
TIAMAT and MARDUK (Nibiru). In the Enuma Elish and the Book of Enki, the chain of
events is described such that TIAMAT was, once, a predecessor of earth. By an inter-
planetary collision with another heavenly body, TIAMAT was torn into the asteroid
belt, the present earth, and our moon. In the above cylinder seal engraving we see
“Sin,” the moon-God facing toward MARDUK, in the same position as TIAMAT, because
the moon, KINGU, was, according to the Sumerian myths, at thta time still attached to
TIAMAT. The Sumerian Book of Enki and the Babylonian Enuma Elish are at odds with
one another as to the name of the “cosmic avenger” who slew TIAMAT and liberated
Sin or Ki, our moon. The Babylonian Enuma Elish names MARDUK the Destroyer. The
Book of Enki has the name as Nibiru, the “the crossing.” Ultimately, the name of the
heavenly body that struck and destroyed the proto-earth, TIAMAT is less important
than the fact of the act itself. Let us consider further what it meant for TIAMAT to
have been destroyed and its parts scattered across the asteroid belt, the moon and our
own planet. It is written that in the Book of Enki that it was also due to a close-miss of
Nibiru with earth that caused the deluge. The traditional depiction of MARDUK and
TIAMAT’s battle from Assyrian-era regions is noteably unique from the Babylonian.
TIAMAT was usually depicted as a winged dragon in the south, & a snake in the north.