| { |
| "name": "Wheel of Heaven Theomachy Cross-References", |
| "description": "A cross-reference of the combat myth (chaoskampf) across the ancient traditions: a storm/order god defeating a chaos, sea, or dragon adversary. For each, the champion, the adversary, the form chaos takes, the weapon, the outcome, and the primary reference, with links to the digitized texts. CC0 public domain.", |
| "license": "CC0-1.0", |
| "landing_page": "https://www.wheelofheaven.world/datasets/theomachy-crossrefs/", |
| "columns": [ |
| "id", |
| "tradition", |
| "source_text", |
| "reference", |
| "champion", |
| "adversary", |
| "chaos_form", |
| "weapon", |
| "outcome", |
| "woh_library" |
| ], |
| "count": 8, |
| "rows": [ |
| { |
| "id": "babylonian-marduk-tiamat", |
| "tradition": "Babylonian (Akkadian)", |
| "source_text": "Enūma Eliš", |
| "reference": "Tablet IV", |
| "champion": "Marduk (storm / order god)", |
| "adversary": "Tiamat (and her champion Qingu)", |
| "chaos_form": "Primordial salt-sea", |
| "weapon": "The four winds, a net, bow, and mace", |
| "outcome": "Tiamat's body split to form sky and earth; Marduk enthroned as king", |
| "woh_library": "" |
| }, |
| { |
| "id": "ugaritic-baal-yam", |
| "tradition": "Ugaritic (Canaanite)", |
| "source_text": "Baal Cycle", |
| "reference": "KTU 1.2; 1.5", |
| "champion": "Baal (the storm-god)", |
| "adversary": "Yam (Sea/Judge River); the serpent Lôtan (= Leviathan)", |
| "chaos_form": "Sea; seven-headed serpent", |
| "weapon": "The maces Yagrush and Ayamur (forged by Kothar-wa-Ḫasis)", |
| "outcome": "Yam defeated; Baal acclaimed king", |
| "woh_library": "https://www.wheelofheaven.world/library/baal-cycle-woh/" |
| }, |
| { |
| "id": "hebrew-yahweh-leviathan", |
| "tradition": "Hebrew / Biblical", |
| "source_text": "Psalms, Isaiah, Job", |
| "reference": "Ps 74:13–14; Isa 27:1; 51:9–10; Job 26:12–13", |
| "champion": "Yahweh", |
| "adversary": "Leviathan (Lôtan), Rahab, Tannin, the Sea", |
| "chaos_form": "Sea-dragon / twisting serpent", |
| "weapon": "Yahweh's rebuke and might", |
| "outcome": "The chaos-monster crushed at creation, re-enacted at the Exodus — the combat demythologized into poetry", |
| "woh_library": "https://www.wheelofheaven.world/library/psalms/" |
| }, |
| { |
| "id": "greek-zeus-typhon", |
| "tradition": "Greek", |
| "source_text": "Hesiod, Theogony", |
| "reference": "Theogony 820–880", |
| "champion": "Zeus", |
| "adversary": "Typhoeus (Typhon)", |
| "chaos_form": "Hundred-headed earth-born monster", |
| "weapon": "The thunderbolt", |
| "outcome": "Typhon blasted and hurled to Tartarus (later, beneath Mt. Etna)", |
| "woh_library": "" |
| }, |
| { |
| "id": "vedic-indra-vritra", |
| "tradition": "Vedic / Hindu", |
| "source_text": "Rig Veda", |
| "reference": "RV 1.32; Book 10", |
| "champion": "Indra", |
| "adversary": "Vṛtra (the dragon, ahi)", |
| "chaos_form": "Dragon enclosing the waters", |
| "weapon": "The vajra (thunderbolt, forged by Tvaṣṭṛ)", |
| "outcome": "Vṛtra slain; the pent-up seven rivers released", |
| "woh_library": "https://www.wheelofheaven.world/library/rig-veda-book-10/" |
| }, |
| { |
| "id": "hittite-stormgod-illuyanka", |
| "tradition": "Hittite / Anatolian", |
| "source_text": "Illuyanka Myth", |
| "reference": "CTH 321", |
| "champion": "The Storm-god (Tarḫunna)", |
| "adversary": "The serpent Illuyanka", |
| "chaos_form": "Serpent / dragon", |
| "weapon": "Aided by the goddess Inara and the mortal Ḫupašiya", |
| "outcome": "The serpent defeated (two versions); recited at the purulli festival", |
| "woh_library": "" |
| }, |
| { |
| "id": "egyptian-ra-apophis", |
| "tradition": "Egyptian", |
| "source_text": "Coffin Texts / Book of the Dead", |
| "reference": "Spells against Apep", |
| "champion": "Ra (the sun), defended by Set", |
| "adversary": "Apep (Apophis)", |
| "chaos_form": "Chaos-serpent of the netherworld", |
| "weapon": "Knives and spears", |
| "outcome": "Apep repelled each night on the solar barque, but never finally destroyed", |
| "woh_library": "" |
| }, |
| { |
| "id": "christian-michael-dragon", |
| "tradition": "Christian", |
| "source_text": "Revelation", |
| "reference": "Revelation 12:7–9", |
| "champion": "Michael and his angels", |
| "adversary": "The great dragon (the ancient serpent, the Devil)", |
| "chaos_form": "Seven-headed dragon", |
| "weapon": "", |
| "outcome": "The dragon defeated and cast down to the earth — the combat myth in eschatological key", |
| "woh_library": "https://www.wheelofheaven.world/library/revelation/" |
| } |
| ] |
| } |
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