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Chaos and dragons

Leviathan, the tannin, Tiamat and the dragons of Genesis 1:21 — the chaos-monster and what the canon makes of it.

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Wiki entries 5

• Chaoskampf Events & Narratives Chaoskampf — the scholarly name for the ancient Near Eastern combat myth in which a storm-god defeats a sea-monster. The corpus reads these myths…
• Dragons Symbolism & Motifs Dragons are a category of large reptilian or serpentine creatures that the Wheel of Heaven framework identifies as deliberately created biological…
• Leviathan Symbolism & Motifs Leviathan — the Hebrew Bible's primordial sea-serpent. In the corpus, one of several names for the figure the Wheel of Heaven entry treats under…
• Tannin Symbolism & Motifs Tannin (תַּנִּין) — the Hebrew Bible's word for the serpent-dragon-monster class, named in Genesis 1:21. The corpus treats it under Dragons.
• Theomachy Events & Narratives The Theomachy is the multi-age narrative event of the political-military conflict between the Elohim home-world Council and the…

Articles 2

• The Dragon Curve 2026-10-25 Genesis 1:21 creates the great tanninim — the Hebrew Bible's dragon-class word, softened to 'whales' and 'sea creatures' by two millennia of…
• The Archdeacon and the Dragon 2026-07-06 In 2020 a serving archdeacon of the Anglican Church in Australia published a book arguing that the Elohim of Genesis are 'the Powerful Ones' — a…

Timeline 1

• Age of Virgo -13170 – -11010 The fifth age of the Great Year, when the first animal life appears — fish in the ocean, birds in the air, and the great tanninim (dragons/dinosaurs)…

Library 1

• Job Hebrew Bible · Wheel of Heaven Translation Program · 2026 Job translated from the Hebrew: the council of the sons of the Elohim, Elihu's storm hymn, and YHWH's speech from the whirlwind with Behemoth and…

Datasets 2

• Myth Index A machine-readable CC0 index of 75 myth-motif attestations across 9 families — flood, divine council, theomachy, creation, giants — with Thompson…
• Theomachy Cross-References A CC0 dataset of combat myths (chaoskampf) across cultures — champion, adversary, chaos form, weapon, outcome. Machine-readable CSV and JSON download.

Most-cited sources 10

• Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds
• A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)
• The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
• The Ancestry of Birds
• The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times
• An Instinct for Dragons
• Tail-propelled aquatic locomotion in a theropod dinosaur
• The Origin of Birds