This is not the place to justify what to us in the twentieth century seems a silly theology. The point is that the myth in all seriousness now relates the creation of the world in the light of the struggle between the Creator and the Sea. The fight is between Marduk, the one who brings order in the world, and Tiamat, the one who by her very nature as water desires to abolish order and boundaries. The story is dramatically told,7 but I will relate just its conclusion. Marduk destroys Tiamat, the Sea,