Apsu
Americannoun
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The Babylonian bible, which is many centuries older than the Old Testament, says that Apsu and Tiamit first created the gods of order, or light.
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Apsu and Tiamat are synonymous and are personifications of the watery deep or abyss.
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Apsu represents the male and Tiâmat the female principle of the primaeval universe.
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Ea, Merodach's father, overcame Apsu, the husband of the dragon Tiamat, by means of spells: he was "the great magician of the gods".
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Here he found Publius, with his army, watching that of Philip, which held the passes near the river Apsus, but unable to effect anything on account of the enemy being so strongly posted.
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