Tiamat (ティアマト, Tiamato) is a Guardian ÄRM, summoning a beautiful demon girl lodged within the jaws of a large bone serpent.
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Tiamat (Akkadian: 𒀭𒋾𒊩𒆳 DTI.AMAT or 𒀭𒌓𒌈 DTAM.TUM, Ancient Greek: Θαλάττη, romanized: Thaláttē) is a primordial creator goddess of the sea, and through a sacred marriage with Abzû, the god of the groundwater, peacefully created the cosmos through successive generations.
In the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation, Tiamat bears the first generation of deities; her husband, Abzû, correctly assuming that they are planning to kill him and usurp his throne, later makes war upon them and is killed. Enraged, she also wars upon her husband's murderers, bringing forth multitudes of monsters as offspring. 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". Marduk then integrates elements of her body into the heavens and the earth. Due to this, Tiamut has also been considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.
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