Marduck and Tiamat - A New Manifestation

Marduk is elected by all the other gods to be king god. He's got eyes all the way around his head, and he speaks magic words. And when he fights, he fights this deity called tiamat. The mesopotamian emperor acted out marduk in so far as he was a good marduk. That's part of the process by which that abstracted ideal is abstracted....