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It has nothing to do with Omoroka. The word used is Lakhami, the plural of Lakhamu. This scene, the description of the monsters and the installation of Kingu, occurs four times in the 'Epic. See p. 424. Delitzsch, Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos, p. 25. Cory, ib. p. 92. "The chamber of fates" where Marduk sits on New Year's Day and decides the fate of mankind for the ensuing year.
Of these they made a man and a woman. The man they named Aske and the woman Emla. From this pair has descended the human race. The marked resemblance between the characters of the Gothic Ymer and the Chaldean Omoroka, from each of whose bodies the universe is created, has been observed by various writers.
He it was who gave the above account of creation. He says that finally Omoroka, or Thalatth, the woman who existed before the creation, was divided, one half of her forming the heavens, "the other half the earth." "All this," Berosus declares, "was an allegorical description of Nature." Smith, Chaldean Account of Genesis, pp. 34, 35.
Men were there with the wings of birds and even with the feet of beasts. There were also quadrupeds and men with fishes' tails, all of which had been produced by a twofold principle. Over this incongruous mass a woman presided. This woman is called Omoroka by the Babylonians and by the Chaldeans Thalatth. The latter name, signifies, "bearing" or "egg producing."
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