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Tiamat et Marduk

 
Partie d’une série d’articles sur le Système Solaire

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   Le Soleil    Hélios et Vesta Temple du Soleil Taches solaires

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   Planètes    Mercure Vénus L’étoile de la liberté (Terre) Mars Jupiter Saturne Uranus Neptune Pluton
Évolution des planètes

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   Anciennes planètes    Tiamat Hédron Maldek

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   Autres corps    La Lune Lilith Vulcain Astéroïdes Comètes Comète Kohoutek

Dans la mythologie babylonienne, Tiamat est le principe féminin du chaos (représenté comme la mer anarchique et tumultueuse ou les pouvoirs de l'eau salée) qui prend la forme d'un dragon. Elle est représentée comme l'ennemie des dieux de la lumière et de la loi.

L'épopée babylonienne de la création

Comme le raconte l'épopée babylonienne de la création, Tiamat et son mari, Aspu (le père primitif, personnification de l'océan, des profondeurs, des pouvoirs des eaux douces), existaient avec leur fils, Mummu, avant la création des cieux et de la terre. Après une succession de générations de dieux issus d'Aspu et de Tiamat, Aspu, irrité par ces êtres turbulents et tapageurs qui troublaient sa paix passée, décida de se débarrasser des nouveaux dieux. L'un d'entre eux, Ea, l'apprit et détruisit Aspu avant qu'il ne puisse mettre ses plans à exécution.

The vengeful Tiamat thus became the formidable enemy of the new gods, until she and the forces of chaos (including enormous dragons and serpents which she created as her allies) were at last overcome by Marduk, the great god of Babylon, who then fashioned the heavens and the earth and organized the universe. In another variation of the creation legend, Tiamat represents the subterranean waters of chaos, the elementary principle from which the earth arose in the form of a mountain.

Zechariah Sitchin’s theories

Zecharia Sitchin interprets the creation myth as a tale of the creation of our solar system: In the beginning before the formation of the other planets, there was only Aspu (the Sun), Mummu (Mercury), and Tiamat. Tiamat (the “missing planet”) was later split in half when it collided with the satellites of Marduk, a large planet drawn into this solar system by the gravitational pull of Neptune. Tiamat’s upper half, along with her chief satellite, became Earth and her moon; her lower half, shattered by Marduk during its second orbit, became the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Sitchin suggests that in this series of events Marduk transferred the seed of life to Earth, giving her “the biological and complex early forms of life for whose early appearance there is no other explanation.” He says that at the time the human species on Earth was just beginning to stir, Marduk had already evolved into a planet with high levels of civilization and technology.

According to Sitchin, Marduk is caught in a large elliptical orbit around the Sun and returns to the site of the collision between Jupiter and Mars every 3,600 Earth-years. He calls Marduk “the Twelfth Planet” after the ancient Sumerians’ scheme of this solar system, which depicts 12 celestial bodies—the Sun, the moon, and 10 planets.

For more information

See the following works by Zecharia Sitchin: The 12th Planet (New York: Avon Books, 1976), pp. 204, 210–34, 255–56; The Stairway to Heaven (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980), pp. 88–90.

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Lost Teachings on Your Higher Self, pp. 284–86.