Lahamu () was a minor figure in some variants of Mesopotamian

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, the feminine counterpart of

Lahmu Laḫmu ( or , ) is a class of apotropaic creatures from Mesopotamian mythology. While the name has its origin in a Semitic languages, Semitic language, Lahmu was present in Sumerian language, Sumerian sources in pre-Sargon of Akkad, Sargonic tim ...

. In some god lists she was one of the ancestors of

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. In Enuma Elish she is the first-born daughter of

Tiamat In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat ( akk, or , grc, Θαλάττη, Thaláttē) is a primordial goddess of the sea, mating with Abzû, the god of the groundwater, to produce younger gods. She is the symbol of the chaos of primordial cre ...

and

Abzu The Abzu or Apsu (Sumerian: ; Akkadian: ), also called (Cuneiform:, ; Sumerian: ; Akkadian: — ='water' ='deep', recorded in Greek as ), is the name for fresh water from underground aquifers which was given a religious fertilising quality ...

. With her brother

she is the mother of Anshar and Kishar, who were in turn parents of the first gods. 19th and early 20th century researchers incorrectly viewed both Lahmu and Lahamu as the representations of the zodiac, parent-stars, or constellations.

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* Michael Jordan, ''Encyclopedia of Gods'', Kyle Cathie Limited, 2002 Mesopotamian goddesses Offspring of Tiamat Characters in the Enūma Eliš {{MEast-myth-stub