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Mesopotamian

Marduk

champion of the gods, splitter of the sea

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Marduk slew the sea-dragon Tiamat and shaped the sky and earth from her cloven body; to dream of him is to face the vast old chaos in you and learn that order, too, can be won.

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He set the stars in their stations like sheep in a fold, and hung the year upon the sky so that time itself would remember to obey him.

Fifty names the gods gave him, one for each of his powers, and they raised his throne above their own after he caught the storm in a net and rode it into war.

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