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Apsu

noun
1.
Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.





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"Apsu" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hesiod, but develops the ruder ideas at greater length. In the shortest (but probably not the earliest) form of the cosmogony, the beginning of all things is found in the watery abyss. Two abysmal powers (Tiamat and Apsu), represented as female and male, mingle their waters, and from them proceed the gods. The list of deities (as in the Greek cosmogony) seems to represent several dynasties, a conception which may embody the belief ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner


Words linked to "Apsu" :   Semitic deity, Mesopotamia


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