Hagobad Speaks

From Hannah's notes:

On Sunday, the world was created. The Bible has many hints of ancient things. For example, God kills Rayhab (Leviathan), a serpent. A classic combat, Male (YHVH) versus Female(Rayhab). The same as Marduk versus Tiamat. In the beginning the spirit of God moves over the waters. The waters predate God. The sacrifice of Christ is a new beginning, but how many new beginnings precede it? How many times has the world been created? Marduk pins Tiamat with a spear, and then makes the world from her body. Like the Norse have the world made from the body of Ymir. The spear pins her, it transfixes her, fixing a point. Before this there is only water, and in water there is no point of origin, no point of reference. All is equally the same and equaly different. When Tiamat was pinned, there was suddenly a point of reference, unmoving. Tiamat is normally unfixed, she is the sea, she is a woman, moving and fluid, changing, she is chaos, the void, she is a serpent with no fixed form. She is a many headed serpent. An snake with many heads = an octopus. God defeats the octopuses in order to make man. Christ is also a sign post, the crucifixtion is a point of origin. He is pinned, like Tiamat, a point of reference that holds off chaos. God, the cross, both have three points, allowing for greater order, triangulation, stronger than a single point, a line, a spear. Tiamat is not alone (see Psalms, Job). "She made the worm, the dragon, the female monster, the great lion, the mad dog, the manscorpion, the howling storm, Kulili, Kusarrku. The show no mercy with their terrible weapons. Her law binds them." From the Enuma Elish, an ancient song. It tells how to defeat the monsters with the 50 names of Marduk.