Tiamat is the at left center of the Vista. To her right, an adversary has appeared. It looks like a small humanoid, however, its appearance is not set. The small humanoid figure to our left has a mutable appearance. The animations located on the animation page show this in detail. We can find evidence of a continuously changing appearance in the Myth of Zu (Anzu) in Tablet II when Belet-ili is extolling Ninurta: “Your form must keep changing, like a gallu-demon.” Yet, Ninurta is not mentioned in the Enuma Elish as being present at the destruction of Tiamat. For this reason, it is possible that the small figure to Tiamat’s right hand is a gallu demon, or another Annunaki god acting as a gallu demon, present at the battle to help Marduk. Tiamat has no apparent defense on her right side.

To her left, another warrior is visible with raised sword. This warrior is humanoid, but not human. He is bathed in a fiery plasma, and his form is incandescent. His form does not change. We read in the Enuma Elish, for example the L. W. King Translation, speaking of Marduk:

He made ready the bow, he chose his weapon,
He slung a spear upon him and fastened it…
He raised the club, in his right hand he grasped it,
The bow and the quiver he hung at his side.
He set the lightning in front of him,
With burning flame he filled his body.
He made a net to enclose the inward parts of Tiamat …

This warrior is attacking the defensive positions Tiamat has secured to cover her left flank. Marduk can be seen approaching on a mobile assault platform known as “The Chariot of Marduk.” Zoom the image out to discern a dais on the platform. This flanking attacker is unquestionably bathed and filled with raging fire. It is entirely likely this is a visage of Marduk, and he is attacking Tiamat. Even though all of the trappings of battle noted above in the Enuma Elish are either absent or simply not visible, a significant similarity is the “burning flame” that filled Marduk’s body. Another translation has it:

He mounted the arrow, set it on the string.

He took up the mace, held it in his right hand,

Bow and quiver he slung on his arm.

Thunderbolts he set before his face,

With raging fire he covered his body.

Then he made a net to enclose Tiamat.

The descriptive embellishments of Marduk’s weaponry and Tiamat’s horrid, deadly capability noted in the Enuma Elish are not replicated in the image. (The image is light captured at an angle of reflection off a rock.) However, we can discern a line of energy or plasma-matter (an “arrow”) apparently emanating from Marduk (right) which is piercing the torso of Tiamat. As we can show through countless cases in our modern history, indigenous populations and peaceful civilizations are at risk of exploitation by extraction-based civilizations. Tiamat was dispersed and nullified.

There are at least eight points of observation on this image. The Avatar of a gallu demon figure at far left, Tiamat at left center, the dark Tiamat defender to her immediate left, the dark Tiamat defender in motion to her lower left, the two entities springing up to her defense at the observer’s lower right, the incandescence pyre in the low right corner, the approaching warrior Marduk with raised sword, and the dark, multi-colored and metallic humanoid at the right top.

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