The Battle Between Good and Evil

The battle between good and evil. Oldebar to satan, for all intents and purposes. The oldest story we have of that sort is a mesopotamian creation myth where a god named mardok attacks a giant dragon named tiamat. It's symbolic of humanity, right? The human being goes out there and encounters the terrible unknown,. often in reptilian form. And so in christianity you get this weird intermingling, for example, of the snake in the garden of eden with satan.