After Apsu's death, Tiamat took Kingu as her new consort and elevated him to command her army of monsters, fastening the Tablet of Destinies upon his breast as a sign of supreme authority.
Kingu marshaled Tiamat's army of eleven chaos monsters against Marduk and the younger gods, bearing the Tablet of Destinies upon his breast as their supreme commander in the cosmic war recounted in the Enuma Elish.
After defeating Tiamat, Marduk ordered the execution of Kingu, Tiamat's general who bore the Tablets of Destiny. From Kingu's blood, Ea fashioned humanity at Marduk's command.
Tiamat fastened the Tablet of Destinies upon Kingu's breast, granting him supreme authority over fate itself, but after Marduk's victory the tablet was stripped from the defeated general and seized as a trophy of cosmic war.
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