Ancient Babylonian creation myth in which the god Marduk slays the chaos dragon Tiamat and creates the world from her body — the archetypal mythological narrative of cosmos emerging from chaos that Peterson reads as a map of the human psychic condition.
Provides the oldest textual source for the mythological pattern Peterson identifies as fundamental: the hero-god who confronts primordial chaos, defeats it, and creates ordered meaning from the encounter — the deep narrative structure he claims underlies all religious myth.
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