Male combat become cosmic sex war against the Mother (Cohn (R126) . Tiamat and Apsu’s progeny disturb the peace. Apsu plots to smash them but Tiamat objects and he is ‘put to sleep’ by Ea. Later when Marduk again disturbs the gods with his storm winds, Tiamat is persuaded to attack and gathers an army of serpents. Marduk agrees to go to war if he gains kingship over all the other gods. Victorious, he splits Tiamat apart to become the Earth and sky. The patriarchal repression of the Mother Goddess is achieved in the victory of civic order over primal chaos in kingship.