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Tehwom in the [[Bible]] means "the depths" or "the deeps". It is cognate with [[Babylon]]ian [[Tiamat]], the creatrix Goddess of Salt Water, who with her freshwater partner [[Apsu]]/[[Abzu]], was the original creators of the Babylonian cosmos, mother and father of [[Lahamu]] and [[Lahmu]]. In the Babylonian [[Creation]] {{Myth]], the ''[[Enuma Elish]]'', Tiamat, in anger to what the younger gods do to her husband and partner [[Abzu]] threatens to take back the creation. It is [[Enlil]] "Lord Air" (later [[Marduk]]) who saves the [[cosmos]] by slaying Tiamat with the arrows of his winds down her throat, and rebuilding the Earth and Sky from her dismembered body. In the Bible [[Genesis]] 1:2-3 has a vague memory of this Babylonian myth. It states ''"'erets hayah tohuw bohuw choshek paniym tehwom, ruwach 'elohiym rachaph `al paniym mayim"'', "The Earth was without form and darkness was on the face of the deeps, and the breath of God (Elohim = the Gods) moved across the face of the waters". |
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