Collection: Marduk — Chief God of Babylon

He killed Tiamat — the primordial salt-water dragon — with a spear through her open mouth, then split her body in half to create the sky and earth. From her eyes he made the Tigris and Euphrates. From her tail he made the Milky Way. Marduk's victory over chaos is the Babylonian creation myth, and it established him as the supreme deity of the Mesopotamian world — the fifty names of Marduk enumerate his power over every aspect of existence. The great temple of Esagila in Babylon, topped by the ziggurat Etemenanki, was his palace on earth. Some scholars believe Etemenanki was the tower of Babel.

These signs carry the dragon Mušḫuššu that is Marduk's symbol, the spade, the fifty crowns, and the victory over primordial chaos.