Tiamat

**Tiamat**, also called **Tia**, is a major character in the *Divine Comedy*.

Tiamat was the second wife of Adam before Eve but was rejected by Adam when he saw the way she was being created. She fled from Eden and named herself Tiamat. After marrying Typhon she became the mother of monsters.

## History

### Background

Tiamat was the second wife Adam and was created after Lilith left him. Joy states that while she was in the development process, Adam saw how it was going and was horrified by what he saw. The process itself involving the placement of bone, tissue, muscles, organs, and the like. Adam was so horrified in fact that he fainted which Tiamat perceived as a brutal rejection, greatly upsetting and humiliating her; at the time she had no name as God didn't give her one after He finished.

She left Eden and encountered Typhon, the first monster to emerge and the father of all monsters. She married Typhon and bore him a host of monstrous children, the first of which was Marduk their first born son. Afterwards, more monsters followed though some were created by other external forces such as Naamah being credited with creating vampires. Seeing the threat they posed to humanity, God had the angels drive the monsters away into unexplored lands with Marduk being forced by Heaven to banish Tiamat deep beneath the Earth's waters mainly to prevent her from being killed by them. Typhon himself would later be buried underneath a mountain after his battle with Zeus.

### Legacy

Her whereabouts are unknown but according to Lilith, Tiamat dug through the dark tunnels of the ocean and made her way towards the habitable terrain that was occupied by dark, inhuman, shimmering shapes. She made a home for herself in an undersea cavern beneath the Earth where she told the shapes to "bug off". It was also revealed that before she was forcefully separated from Typhon, she was pregnant and gave birth to their two daughters named Charybdis and Scylla, who now guard the entrances that lead to their mother's lair.

From where Tiamat now resides, two towns were founded parallel to the centerpoint of her dwelling. The first would be a town located in the North or Midwestern regions of the United States called Gallows Creek while the second would be Bermuda Falls that is located in the Southeast. As of today, Tiamat is presumably dormant beneath the depths of the Gulf of Mexico but her mere presence is enough to draw a myriad of supernatural phenomena and entities that now lurk across these two states. She is also fairly worshipped by some of the monsters and even various cults that are opposed by certain branches of the Men in Black.

## Trivia

* Tiamat is derived from the mythological deity of the same name in Mesopotamian mythology who is also titled as the Mother of Monsters or the Mother of Dragons.
* Her theme song would be "Monster" sung by Caissie Levy in the Broadway adaptation of *Frozen*.
* The series creator calls Tiamat the first teratophile.
* According to Naamah, Tiamat is deeply insecure about her appearance which may explain as to why she won't bother coming to the surface even when given many opportunities to do so.
	+ Her sisters are shown to still care for her as Eve would leave her a gift basket and food by the entrance of her dwelling.
	+ Cain states that Eve would leave food baskets for Tiamat by the cave entrance which resulted in humans developing a legend around it.