ロバート・グレイヴス[24]は、ティアマトがマルドゥクによって殺されたことを、母系社会から家父長制への権力移行という古代の仮説の証拠とみなした<ref>Graves, ''The Greek Myths'', rev. ed. 1960:§4.5.</ref>。ティアマトをはじめとする古代の怪物は、かつて平和で女性を中心とした宗教の最高神であったものが、凶暴化したときに怪物に変身した姿を描いたものだという説だ<ref group="私注">「意図的に凶暴であると悪意でみなされた」とすべきであろう。</ref>。男性の英雄の手による彼らの敗北は、これらの母系宗教・社会が男性優位のものへと転覆することに対応する。この説は、ロッテ・モッツやシンシア・エラーなどの学術的な著者によって否定されている<ref>''The Faces of the Goddess'', Lotte Motz, Oxford University Press (1997), ISBN:978-0-19-508967-7</ref><ref>''The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why An Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future'', Cynthia Eller, Beacon Press (2000), ISBN:978-0-8070-6792-5.</ref>。
==In popular culture==
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The depiction of [[Tiamat (Dungeons & Dragons)|Tiamat as a multi-headed dragon]] was popularized in the 1970s as a fixture of the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' [[roleplaying game]] inspired by earlier sources associating Tiamat with later mythological characters such as [[Lotan]] (Leviathan).<ref>Four ways of Creation: "[http://www.tali-virtualmidrash.org.il/ArticleEng.aspx?art=3 Tiamat & Lotan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206224718/http://www.tali-virtualmidrash.org.il/ArticleEng.aspx?art=3 |date=2015-02-06 }}." Retrieved on August 23, 2010</ref>
*The five headed [[Dragon|draconic]] goddess in the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' game is named [[Tiamat (Dungeons & Dragons)|Tiamat]], and stars as one of the primary antagonists in the [[Dungeons & Dragons (TV series)|''Dungeons & Dragons'']] TV series.
*Tiamat appears as a six-headed dragon in the first ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' as a member of the Four Fiends.
*In Bruce Coville's ''[[Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher]]'' (from the ''[[Magic Shop (series)|Magic Shop]]'' series), a boy is given a dragon egg from Elias's magic shop and names the dragon Tiamat, with whom he develops a mental connection.
* The mobile game ''[[Fate/Grand Order]]'' depicts Tiamat as a powerful goddess and an Evil of Humanity. She firstly appears as a woman with gigantic horns, then as a massive humanoid with demonic horns and a tail, and finally as a draconic being of similar size. The anime ''[[Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia]]'' shows her in the same manner as the game.
* In Japanese anime, manga and light novels series ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'' Tiamat is a female Crimson Lord from a parallel universe called Crimson Realm (紅世, Guze), bound by contract to one of the characters.
* In music, [[Tiamat (band)|Tiamat]] is a Swedish Gothic metal band that formed in Stockholm in 1987.
* The Swedish black metal band [[Dissection (band)|Dissection]] constantly reference Tiamat in their 2006 album ''[[Reinkaos]]''
* In the 2010 video game ''[[Darksiders]]'', one of the Chosen that must be slain by Horseman War is Tiamat, the gigantic queen of vampire bats.
* The eighth book of ''[[The Expanse (novel series)|The Expanse]]'' series by [[James S. A. Corey]] is titled ''Tiamat's Wrath'', and was published in 2019.
* Tiamat, in the image of a giant mermaid, appears as a boss in the [[platform game|platform video game]] ''[[Spelunky 2]]''.
* Tiamat is the final boss in the 2013 [[action role-playing game]] ''[[Young Justice: Legacy]]''.
* Tiamat is one of the playable gods in the [[Multiplayer online battle arena|MOBA]] ''[[SMITE]]'', the first Babylonian god released in 2021.
* Tiamat is the inspiration for Tiamut, a [[Celestial (comics)|Celestial]] in the [[Marvel Universe]].
* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', Tiamat was a Goa'uld System Lord in the First Goa'uld Dynasty that predates the time of the series. In the season five episode "The Tomb" and season six episode "Full Circle" an artifact known as the Eye of Tiamat serves as a plot device.
* Tiamat appears as one of the oldest and most powerful of the water-elemental [[Marid]] in ''The Daevabad Trilogy'' by [[S. A. Chakraborty]].
==See also==
*[[Sea of Suf]] - a primordial sea in the World of Darkness in Mandaean cosmology
==References==
==External links==*[http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htm Enuma Elish]*[http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Enuma_Elish.html Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation story]
== 概要 ==
; クサリク(Kusarikku, <small>𒆪𒊓𒋆𒄣、KU.SA.RIK.KUM</small>)
: 有翼の牡牛。『ギルガメシュ叙事詩』に登場する天の雄牛([[グガランナ]])と同一視される聖牛<ref name="ikegami" />。
== 外部リンク ==
*[http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htm Enuma Elish]
*[http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Enuma_Elish.html Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation story]
== 関連項目 ==