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The Sumerian creation myth begins with the concept of Nammu who would later become known as Tiamat, described as a great cosmic serpent, dragon, chaos or salt water/primordial sea (often taken to mean space or sometimes time). Nammu was female and known as the “Glistening One” she had a male counterpart, another primordial sea deity of fresh water known as Abzu, the merging of these twin waters in a divine union would birth the first Gods and Goddesses. Some of these new born deities were plotting to steal Abzu’s crown and make themselves more powerful, the Gods succeed in killing Abzu and in an enraged response Nammu transforms into her dragon form, names her loyal son Kingu as the king of the Gods giving him powerful magical objects called the Tablets of Destiny which confirmed him as ruler of the universe, Nammu then spawns the monsters of the Sumerian world including the first dragons who had poison for blood, serpents and hybrid creatures, with an army of monsters led by Kingu, Nammu makes war on the Gods who promise the young storm God Marduk (son of the sea God Enki) that he will be chief of the Gods if he leads them in battle against Nammu and her forces, Marduk is succesful in killing Kingu and siezed the Tablets of Destiny, then armed with the arrows of the winds, a net, a club and an invicible spear he made war against Nammu, standing on her hind he smashed her skull, cut her in half and used the arrows to cause the Northern winds to scatter her body. From her ribs the Gods formed the heavens and earth. Her weeping eyes became the waters, from her tail the milkyway galaxy was formed. This violent mythology of sacred marriage, trechery, warfare and creation became the basis of the worlds first organised religion. We may never know what events shaped early man to believe that this is how the world came to be, proponents of ancient astronaut theories who suggest these deities are actually extraterrestrials have long indicated a belief that the battle described in these epics are the mistranslations or misunderstandings of advanced beings explain a space age battle to primitive man. Another theory suggests a mystical inspiration such as dreams, meditation or psychedelic visions may have been the basis for these vivid accounts of celestial warfare.