Abraham Allegiant (Chronicles of the Nephilim Book 4) by Brian Godawa
Authors: Brian Godawa
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nothing about it.
Marduk reached the heart of Tiamat. It was huge, the size of ten men. Marduk used his dagger to slice its arteries off and then plunged it into the beating muscle, ripping downward with all his might.
Tiamat jerked and spasmed as its heart became a useless severed organ.
The enormous serpent died in a sea of its own blood, floating slowly to the bottom of the lake.
Then its belly sliced open with Marduk’s blade and he came out of the great beast and swam upward.
When Marduk broke the surface, he crawled onto shore exhausted. But he had an image to reinforce. So he stood to his full eight-foot naked frame with a proud bravado and lifted his chin toward the entourage of gods and king, and said simply, “Tiamat is dead. Long live Marduk, king of the gods.”
A rousing cheer blistered the shoreline as hundreds of slaves and workers were relieved that their lives would be spared the terrors of the sea serpent. Marduk had suppressed chaos and established his kingdom.
Nimrod filled with a new determination for he now knew they would be unstoppable. No god had ever come close to such a mighty feat of power. A fleeting thought of Ishtar’s demise even accompanied his thrill of victory. His guardian was now king of the gods.
Anu walked up to Marduk with the Tablet of Destinies.
But before he could hand them to him, Enlil stepped out of the crowd and complained, “I want to see the body.”
Marduk looked over at Enlil, and replied, “Oh, I am not finished yet. You will see the body.”
Marduk turned to Nimrod and said, “Command your slaves to dredge up the corpse for me with the battle net.”
Nimrod obeyed and Marduk turned back to Enlil. “You are welcome to watch if you still require satisfaction.”
Enlil wondered just what exactly Marduk was planning. Marduk smirked, and then added, “On second thought, I command you and the other gods, as obeisance to my new superiority, to stay and watch me filet this great fish.”
The gods begrudgingly watched and waited as the company of slaves hauled the body of the great sea dragon onto land with the battle net and a few hundred strong arms.
Marduk then retrieved his large battle-axe and proceeded to cut the body of Tiamat in half, from jaws to tail. He chopped and hacked for hours, covered in gargantuan fish blood and guts, until he had two perfect halves of the great monster.
Enlil was disgusted with the brutishness with which Marduk operated. He thought it would be a new era of barbarism under this monster. But of course he dare not speak what everyone else was also thinking.
After Marduk was done cutting the serpent’s corpse in half, he looked to the heavens, saturated in blood and stench and proclaimed, “I am Marduk, king of the gods. And I have split Tiamat like a shellfish. Thus I have created the heavens and the earth out of the body of the great sea dragon. I have established the stars and their paths, the moon and the sun, and the constellations in their course. The Anunnaki gods all bow before me.”
The four high gods bowed. “Annunaki” was another Sumerian word for the gods of the pantheon. It meant “Princely Seed.”
Marduk had made sure that the ceremonial ritual of crowning him king of the gods was performed immediately upon the completion of his corpse splitting. He wanted his enthronement to be as close to his victory as possible for maximum symbolic impact.
His throne had yet to be built in his new temple, but a symbolic one worked just as well, made out of wood, gilded with gold and laden with jewels. The royal house of Nimrod and the four high gods representing the pantheon all participated in the ritual of transferring the crown and the Tablet of Destinies from Enlil to Marduk.
It was all very humiliating for Enlil, but there was really no challenging the mighty strength of Marduk, who now took on a litany of fifty names of greatness read before the observing crowd of Nimrod’s people by Sinleqi, the
Marduk reached the heart of Tiamat. It was huge, the size of ten men. Marduk used his dagger to slice its arteries off and then plunged it into the beating muscle, ripping downward with all his might.
Tiamat jerked and spasmed as its heart became a useless severed organ.
The enormous serpent died in a sea of its own blood, floating slowly to the bottom of the lake.
Then its belly sliced open with Marduk’s blade and he came out of the great beast and swam upward.
When Marduk broke the surface, he crawled onto shore exhausted. But he had an image to reinforce. So he stood to his full eight-foot naked frame with a proud bravado and lifted his chin toward the entourage of gods and king, and said simply, “Tiamat is dead. Long live Marduk, king of the gods.”
A rousing cheer blistered the shoreline as hundreds of slaves and workers were relieved that their lives would be spared the terrors of the sea serpent. Marduk had suppressed chaos and established his kingdom.
Nimrod filled with a new determination for he now knew they would be unstoppable. No god had ever come close to such a mighty feat of power. A fleeting thought of Ishtar’s demise even accompanied his thrill of victory. His guardian was now king of the gods.
Anu walked up to Marduk with the Tablet of Destinies.
But before he could hand them to him, Enlil stepped out of the crowd and complained, “I want to see the body.”
Marduk looked over at Enlil, and replied, “Oh, I am not finished yet. You will see the body.”
Marduk turned to Nimrod and said, “Command your slaves to dredge up the corpse for me with the battle net.”
Nimrod obeyed and Marduk turned back to Enlil. “You are welcome to watch if you still require satisfaction.”
Enlil wondered just what exactly Marduk was planning. Marduk smirked, and then added, “On second thought, I command you and the other gods, as obeisance to my new superiority, to stay and watch me filet this great fish.”
The gods begrudgingly watched and waited as the company of slaves hauled the body of the great sea dragon onto land with the battle net and a few hundred strong arms.
Marduk then retrieved his large battle-axe and proceeded to cut the body of Tiamat in half, from jaws to tail. He chopped and hacked for hours, covered in gargantuan fish blood and guts, until he had two perfect halves of the great monster.
Enlil was disgusted with the brutishness with which Marduk operated. He thought it would be a new era of barbarism under this monster. But of course he dare not speak what everyone else was also thinking.
After Marduk was done cutting the serpent’s corpse in half, he looked to the heavens, saturated in blood and stench and proclaimed, “I am Marduk, king of the gods. And I have split Tiamat like a shellfish. Thus I have created the heavens and the earth out of the body of the great sea dragon. I have established the stars and their paths, the moon and the sun, and the constellations in their course. The Anunnaki gods all bow before me.”
The four high gods bowed. “Annunaki” was another Sumerian word for the gods of the pantheon. It meant “Princely Seed.”
Marduk had made sure that the ceremonial ritual of crowning him king of the gods was performed immediately upon the completion of his corpse splitting. He wanted his enthronement to be as close to his victory as possible for maximum symbolic impact.
His throne had yet to be built in his new temple, but a symbolic one worked just as well, made out of wood, gilded with gold and laden with jewels. The royal house of Nimrod and the four high gods representing the pantheon all participated in the ritual of transferring the crown and the Tablet of Destinies from Enlil to Marduk.
It was all very humiliating for Enlil, but there was really no challenging the mighty strength of Marduk, who now took on a litany of fifty names of greatness read before the observing crowd of Nimrod’s people by Sinleqi, the
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