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Tiamat is usually described as a [[sea serpent]] or [[dragon]], however assyriologist [[Alexander Heidel]] disagreed with this identification and argued that "dragon form can not be imputed to Tiamat with certainty". Other scholars have disregarded Heidel's argument: [[Joseph Fontenrose]] in particular found it "not convincing" and concluded that "there is reason to believe that Tiamat was sometimes, not necessarily always, conceived as a dragoness".<ref>{{cite book |last=Fontenrose |first=Joseph |title=Python: a study of Delphic myth and its origins |year=1980 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |isbn=0-520-04091-0 |pages=153–154}}</ref> The ''[[Enûma Elish]]'' states that Tiamat gave [[birth]] to dragons and [[Serpent (symbolism)|serpents]] among a more general list of monsters including [[scorpion men]] and [[Mermaid|merpeople]], but does not identify her form as that of a dragon; however, other sources containing the same myth do refer to her as such.<ref>{{cite book |last=King |first=Leonard William |title=The Seven Tablets of Creation (Vol. II: Supplementary Texts) |year=1902 |pages=117}}</ref>
The depiction of [[Tiamat (Dungeons & Dragons)|Tiamat as a multi-headed dragon]] was popularized in the 1970s as a fixture of the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' [[roleplaying game]] inspired by earlier sources associating Tiamat with later mythological characters such as [[Lotan]].<ref>Four ways of Creation: "[http://www.tali-virtualmidrash.org.il/ArticleEng.aspx?art=3 Tiamat & Lotan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206224718/http://www.tali-virtualmidrash.org.il/ArticleEng.aspx?art=3 |date=2015-02-06 }}." Retrieved on August 23, 2010</ref>
==Mythology==
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