User blog:Emmort/Tiamat and the Leviathans

Okay, so I finally got round to watching last weeks episode and I decided to do a bit of research afterward, see what I could find on the Leviathans and this clay business. I actually found something quite interesting in the form of Tiamat.

Incase you can't be bothered to read all of that, Tiamat is essentially the mother of the ocean and the creator of many of the younger gods. In Babylonian mythology she is pretty much the mother of all. She is considered the "monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos." It is believed that she gave birth to sea serpents (quite possibly those pesky Leviathans we've all grown to know and hate) and the image of her as a multi-headed dragon was made popular by the Dungeon & Dragons game in the 1970s. Did anyone else think it was odd that and episode featuring a girl with a tattoo of Princess Leia was called The Girl With the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo?

Of course, like most gods and goddesses, every sea-dwelling-mother-of-all has its day and Tiamat was eventually killed by the god Marduk. In the battle he used three items; a net, a club and an invincible spear. He also had on his side the arrows of the winds. I know there's been a few mentions of items to kill the Leviathans with, and I've gotta wonder if these could be them.

So what about the clay? Well there's two parallels we can draw here. The first would be that Kingu, the son and also lover of Tiamat (got to love ancient mythologies) was also killed, and it is believed that his blood mixed with the Earth and became the red clay from which Adam and the rest of mankind was made. It does make you wonder what other magical properties that stuff could have if that's the idea the writers have taken.

The more probable pinched idea, however, is that when Marduk took over as King of the Gods he took from Kingu The Tablets Of Destiny; stone tablets inscribed with cuneiform writing like that which is seen in latest preview. The person who has these tablets, rules the universe. Of course this being Supernatural, the tablets probably don't have any power themselves, but what's to say they couldn't lead to something that can finally take out the Leviathans?

Anyhoe, these are just some connections I dreamed up this morning. Any thoughts?