zu-bird

Updated: May 28, 2025

But the story, while thus admitting the legitimacy of En-lil's claim to supreme power, is yet so constructed as to contribute to the glory of Marduk. The attack of the Zu-bird was suggested as the Tiâmat myth by the annual storms that work such havoc in Babylonia.

Morris Jastrow - The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria