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Tehwom in the Bible means "the depths" or "the deeps". It is cognate with Babylonian 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 Lahm 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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	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 [[Lahm]] and [[Lahmu]].		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 [[Lahm]] 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".