Makers of Mankind

Chaotic waters clash against the shores
Something lurking underneath
A serpentine tail coiled around the core
Never sleeping

She was here when it all began
Watching, waiting
To rise about the world of man
She will strike

Tiamat and Abzû twisting in throes
Churning the quaking tide
Until something started to grow
Kingu arise!

The snake - Dragon
The storm - Bull man

Marduk, the king of the gods
Took up the call
Destiny is his at a nod
Marduk to war!

The many-headed dragon stares
With black empty eyes
From her underwater lair
Fate awaits

Marduk stands with bow and net
The winds at his call
Lightning strikes, the stage is set
War begins

The wyrm - The King
Clashes - Battles

The wind lashes out against the sea
Tiamat roars her defiance
The net seizes her like a lease
The wyrm lashes about

She roars as arrows pierce her flesh
Cruel and unjust
A revered goddess trapped in mesh
Doom is her fate

Tiamat falls back beneath the waves
Easing of the storm
Another time for a bright blue day
Marduk victorious

But too soon…

The beast - The drake
Lion - Scorpion

Kingu march with scores for revenge
For the mother’s fall
So mad with anger, unhinged
He tastes blood

Armies amass on the desert plains
To seize the day
Smoke in the blue sky turns it grey
Will light the pyres

Clashing bronze brings on despair
Neither breaking ground
A mass of bodies fill the air
Laid out by two kings

The Tablets of Destiny
Hangs in the balance
But when Kingu falls
His blood will mix
With the Earth
And thus create
Mankind’s birth