Tiamat (disambiguation)
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The name Tiamat has several meanings.
- Tiamat is a deity in Babylonian mythology.
- Tiamat is a fictional planet in Joan D. Vinge’s novels The Snow Queen and Summer Queen.
- Tiamat is the name of the five-headed goddess of evil dragons in the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeons & Dragons (TV series) based loosely upon the mythological figure (which did not have five heads). This fictional version is used in a number of other works, including several games in the video game series Final Fantasy (most notably as a member of the Four Fiends).
- A gothic metal band also named itself Tiamat.
- According to fringe author Zecharia Sitchin, Tiamat was a celestial body that once existed where the asteroid belt is now. Scholars of astronomy and archeology dispute the idea that a planet existed there in human history or that the Sumerians actually believed what Sitchin claimed they did.
- Tiamat is the name of a Paladin in the game Fire Emblem: Sōen no Kiseki; her name was changed to Titania for the English version, Path of Radiance.
- Tiamat is the designation of the (fictional) biggest Nephilim capital ship (Dreadnought) that is faced by the Confed forces aboard the TCS Midway in the computer game Wing Commander: Prophecy.
- Tiamat is one of the Zerg broods in the Blizzard RTS game StarCraft.
- Tiamat is the name of a sea monster in the game Pirates of Davy Jones Curse Pirates of Davy Jones Curse.
- Tiamat is one of the summons in Golden Sun.
- Tiamat is a gun from the Disgaea video game.
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