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The History of God
FIELD No. 7445
Visual depiction of Marduk

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Marduk

Babylonian chief god

slaying the chaos dragon Tiamat with a net and spear, creating the heavens and earth from her divided body

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

Cross-references — same archetype or region

Visual depiction of Apollo

Apollo

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Hades

Hades

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Ma'at

Ma'at

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Poseidon

Poseidon

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Viracocha

Viracocha

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Coyote

Coyote

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian