| id,tradition,source_text,reference,champion,adversary,chaos_form,weapon,outcome,woh_library | |
| babylonian-marduk-tiamat,Babylonian (Akkadian),Enūma Eliš,Tablet IV,Marduk (storm / order god),Tiamat (and her champion Qingu),Primordial salt-sea,"The four winds, a net, bow, and mace",Tiamat's body split to form sky and earth; Marduk enthroned as king, | |
| ugaritic-baal-yam,Ugaritic (Canaanite),Baal Cycle,KTU 1.2; 1.5,Baal (the storm-god),Yam (Sea/Judge River); the serpent Lôtan (= Leviathan),Sea; seven-headed serpent,The maces Yagrush and Ayamur (forged by Kothar-wa-Ḫasis),Yam defeated; Baal acclaimed king,https://www.wheelofheaven.world/library/baal-cycle-woh/ | |
| hebrew-yahweh-leviathan,Hebrew / Biblical,"Psalms, Isaiah, Job",Ps 74:13–14; Isa 27:1; 51:9–10; Job 26:12–13,Yahweh,"Leviathan (Lôtan), Rahab, Tannin, the Sea",Sea-dragon / twisting serpent,Yahweh's rebuke and might,"The chaos-monster crushed at creation, re-enacted at the Exodus — the combat demythologized into poetry",https://www.wheelofheaven.world/library/psalms/ | |
| greek-zeus-typhon,Greek,"Hesiod, Theogony",Theogony 820–880,Zeus,Typhoeus (Typhon),Hundred-headed earth-born monster,The thunderbolt,"Typhon blasted and hurled to Tartarus (later, beneath Mt. Etna)", | |
| vedic-indra-vritra,Vedic / Hindu,Rig Veda,RV 1.32; Book 10,Indra,"Vṛtra (the dragon, ahi)",Dragon enclosing the waters,"The vajra (thunderbolt, forged by Tvaṣṭṛ)",Vṛtra slain; the pent-up seven rivers released,https://www.wheelofheaven.world/library/rig-veda-book-10/ | |
| hittite-stormgod-illuyanka,Hittite / Anatolian,Illuyanka Myth,CTH 321,The Storm-god (Tarḫunna),The serpent Illuyanka,Serpent / dragon,Aided by the goddess Inara and the mortal Ḫupašiya,The serpent defeated (two versions); recited at the purulli festival, | |
| egyptian-ra-apophis,Egyptian,Coffin Texts / Book of the Dead,Spells against Apep,"Ra (the sun), defended by Set",Apep (Apophis),Chaos-serpent of the netherworld,Knives and spears,"Apep repelled each night on the solar barque, but never finally destroyed", | |
| christian-michael-dragon,Christian,Revelation,Revelation 12:7–9,Michael and his angels,"The great dragon (the ancient serpent, the Devil)",Seven-headed dragon,,The dragon defeated and cast down to the earth — the combat myth in eschatological key,https://www.wheelofheaven.world/library/revelation/ | |