Tiamat bore the Mushussu dragon-serpent as one of eleven monsters she spawned to wage war against the younger gods, arming her brood with venom and clothing them in radiance terrible as gods.
After splitting Tiamat open, Marduk claimed the Mushussu as his own sacred beast, transforming Tiamat's weapon of chaos into his personal emblem — the dragon-serpent that prowled in glazed brick along the Ishtar Gate of Babylon.
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