Tiamat
the salt sea, mother of all
waterTiamat is the primeval ocean from whom every god was born, the great dark before shape or name; to dream of her is to return to the formless deep and remember that all creation begins in a mother's vast unmaking.
Fragments
When her children rose against her she birthed a legion of horned serpents and scorpion-men, and clad in terror she came on like the tide that swallows a shore.
Before the sweet waters and the salt were parted, before names, she and the abyss mingled their waters as one, and out of that mingling the first gods opened their eyes.
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