11 So, in AD&D, Tiamat is this five-headed evil dragon, but they got her from the Enumma Elish, right? What about her counterpart, Bahamut? (Assyro-Babylonian Mythology)
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This article is from the Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ, by Christopher B. Siren cbsiren@hopper.unh.edu with numerous contributions by others.
11 So, in AD&D, Tiamat is this five-headed evil dragon, but they got her from the Enumma Elish, right? What about her counterpart, Bahamut? (Assyro-Babylonian Mythology)
Bahamut, according to Edgerton Sykes' _Who's Who of Non-Classical
Mythology_, is "The enormous fish on which stands Kujara, the giant
bull, whose back supports a rock of ruby, on the top of which stands an
angel on whose shoulders rests the earth, according to Islamic myth.
Our word Behemoth is of the same origin." (Sykes, p. 28)<p>
Behemoth then, is usually the male counterpart to Leviathan, and is a
great beast that roams on land. He is sometimes equated with a
hippopotamus, and is alternately listed as a creature on the side of
God and as one over whom God has or will triumph over.<p>
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