According to fringe author Zecharia Sitchin, Tiamat was a celestial body that once existed where the asteroid belt is now. Scholars of astronomy and archeology dispute the idea that a planet existed there in human history or that the Sumerians actually believed what Sitchin claimed they did.
Tiamat is the name of a Paladin in the game Fire Emblem: Sōen no Kiseki; her name was changed to Titania for the English version, Path of Radiance.
Tiamat is the designation of the (fictional) biggest Nephilim capital ship (Dreadnought) that is faced by the Confed forces aboard the TCS Midway in the computer game Wing Commander: Prophecy.
Tiamat is the name of a sea monster in the game Pirates of Davy Jones Curse Pirates of Davy Jones Curse.
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Lahmu and Lahamu, in turn, were the parents of the axis or pivot of the heavens (Anshar, from An = heaven, Shar = axle or pivot) and the earth (Kishar), and Anshar and Kishar were considered to meet on the horizon, becoming thereby the parents of Anu and Ki.
Tiamat possessed the Tablets of Destiny, and in the primordial battle she gave them to Kingu, the god she had chosen as her lover and the leader of her host.
Some feminist theorists interpret the slaying of Tiamat as the installation of male patriarchy and the supression of a theorized earlier matrifocal partnership culture characterised by a degree of gender equality.
Tiamat is a queen of evil dragons and a member of the default pantheon of DandD gods.
Tiamat is one of the few surviving gods of the Untheric pantheon (based on the Sumerian mythology), having battled Marduk in ages past, and also a member of the draconic pantheon, daughter of Io, the slayer of Gilgeam the God-king of Unther, Nemesis of the Gods.
Tiamat is also the name of a boss in the first Xenosaga game, but the only thing it has in common with the Dungeons and Dragons version is a multicoloured (primarily red) colour scheme.
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