I have recently begun researching Babylonian Gods and Goddesses and came upon this one which I thought might be of interest.
Tiamat is a fascinating example of modern culture completely overriding the myths and ancient texts, and converting a subject convincingly from what they read to what they needed to have.
She is almost universally thought of today as a Sea Serpent or Dragon form, but the Babylonians never actually described her as a Dragon of any kind. In the Enuma Elis (the Babylonian myth of creation) Tiamat is said to have given birth to various creatures including Dragons, Serpents and Merpeople so I can see where the idea came from, but the description of her is quite vague and no mention of scales is to be found anywhere!
However the image was locked firmly in place when the role play board game Dungeons and Dragons adopted her as their Draconic Goddess. Even though the Babylonian version only had one head, that didn't worry the creators of D&D, they went ahead with their artistic licence anyway, and millions became familiar with Tiamat's multi headed image as the Queen of Evil Dragon kind.

And so it would seem that from a vague description in an ancient creation text, Tiamat emerged as one of the most important and evil fantasy creations ever to hit the pages of an RPG.

I wonder would the ancient babylonians be pleased, flattered or phoning a good solicitor about now??

Yeah it's pretty amazing what time will turn things into. I wonder where the mythology for the D and D good dragon god Behamut came from?

Well if the information is out there Shade will find it. She seems to have access to some amazing books and research sources.
Perhaps she'll let us know when she does.

I would say probably the solicitor would be the option to go for unless they managed to talk D & D into making an agreeable settlement in compensation for copywrite infringement.

Dare I suggest she got it all from Wikipedia and see what she says?

Possibly from Behemoth being held in check by Leviathan.
If leviathan were to lose his/her grip on behemoth the world would fall apart...or at least thats the idea of the story anyway.

Yes, I think you should.
Then I will pick up all the pieces of you that I can find, and stick together all the bits that are still identifiable in some way!
I don't know how much of you that will be though!