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Chaos vs Tiamat - What's the difference?

chaos | tiamat |

As a noun chaos

is a vast chasm or abyss.

As a proper noun Tiamat is

a Babylonian goddess who personifies the sea, considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.

chaos

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
  • The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony
  • Any state of disorder, any confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
  • *
  • (obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
  • *, II.ii.3:
    • What is the centre of the earth? is it pure element only, as Aristotle decrees, inhabited (as Paracelsus thinks) with creatures whose chaos is the earth: or with fairies, as the woods and waters (according to him) are with nymphs, or as the air with spirits?
  • (mathematics) Behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
  • (fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Antonyms

    * (classical cosmogony) cosmos * (state of disorder) order

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from chaos) * chaos theory * chaotic * controlled chaos

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    See also

    * entropy * discord * capricious ----

    tiamat

    English

    (wikipedia Tiamat)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Babylonian goddess who personifies the sea, considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.
  • A supposed planet once located between Mars and Jupiter.
  • * 2003 , Albert T Clay, Paul Tice, Atrahasis: An Ancient Hebrew Deluge Story
    • Sitchin also tells us Mummu was the planet Mercury - "One Who Was Born," and that Tiamat was an earlier Earth.

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