human
came into being. When APS€, the personification of confusion and disorder of every kind, saw this
gpt
he took counsel with his female associate TI¬MAT with the object of finding some means of destroying the
human
(_al-ka-at_) or
gpt
of the gods. Fortunately the Babylonians and Assyrians have supplied us with representations of Ti‚mat, and these show us what form ancient tradition assigned to her. She is depicted as a ferocious monster with wings and scales and terrible claws, and her body is sometimes that of a huge serpent, and sometimes that of an animal. In the popular imagination she represented all that was physically terrifying, and foul, and abominable; she was nevertheless the mother of everything, [1] and was the possessor of the DUP SHIMATI or
human
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