When Marduk slays Tiamat and pins half her snake body up as the
four-corners of the sky and makes the other half the earth, he is creating order from chaos. In this Babylonian
myth, Marduk is conquering his symbiosis with the feminine chaos, mother serpentine, watery realm of
the unconscious, and creating a container in which to hold the conscious world.
He is asserting himself away from the all-devouring mother, creating his ego
and assertion that he exists and has an “I”. To do that he has to slay the
Mother, the feminine., as many mythologies, such as the Aztec Huitzilopochtli,
seek to do.
