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لویاتان
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.1|The Destruction of Leviathan by Gustave Doré (1865) thumb|upright=1.4|The circular salt sea Tiamat (green) and sphere of cosmic freshwater ocean [[Abzu are pre-existent deities in Sumerian myths, from whose mating Earth was created, so the sketch's side view shows the same as Babylon's map. Referring to the Atra-Hasis epic, Abzu is the celestial reservoir from which an organisation of younger gods triggers the Flood in order to consume humanity – also a source for the dangerous cosmic sea monster Leviathan.]]
Leviathan is a dangerous cosmic sea monster from ancient mythological traditions, particularly connected to Mesopotamian myths about primordial waters and divine conflict. The creature appears in stories influenced by earlier Sumerian and Babylonian cosmology, where it relates to themes of chaos, divine power, and humanity's relationship to catastrophic forces like floods.
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- name in native language
- לִװײָתָן
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