"..The animals mentioned by Tiglath-pileser I belong to two basic domains of Mesopotamian "wildlife": the distant mountains (burhiš) and the sea (nāhiru). The sea and the mountains are the hypostases of the dark powers of chaos in Mesopotamian mythology:
the dragon "sea" (Tiamat) as the enemy of Marduk and the "mountains" as the dark domain combatted by Ninurta."

«The God Ninurta In the Mythology and Royal Ideology of Ancient Mesopotamia» – Amar Annus

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