Lahamu
Mesopotamian · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Lahamu is half of a pair the registry was carrying in half. Lahmu was already here; she was not. In Enuma Elish the two of them are the first thing born from the mingling of Apsu's fresh water and Tiamat's salt, and they are usually read as the powers in silt — the matter that forms where the two waters meet. From them come Anshar and Kishar, and from those two, Anu. She has no myth of her own; her whole function is to stand at the second rung of a ladder.
Children
Domains
- primordial matter
Relations
- consort of: LahmuThe female half of the first pair; Lahmu was already in this registry without her.Enuma Elish, tablet I. (primary)
- mother of: AnsharMother of Anshar.Enuma Elish, tablet I: Anshar and Kishar are descendants of Lahmu and Lahamu. (primary)
- mother of: KisharMother of Kishar.Enuma Elish, tablet I. (primary)
Sources
- Lahamu is the female half of the first divine pair of Enuma Elish, born with Lahmu of Apsu and Tiamat, the pair representing the powers in silt, and mother of Anshar and Kishar.: Enuma Elish, tablet I. (primary); Reference treatment of Lahamu and of the Enuma Elish succession of primordial pairs. (secondary)