Then Tiâmat and Marduk, chief of the gods, advanced towards one another.
They advanced to the contest, drew nigh for fight.
The fight and discomfiture of Tiâmat are next described:
The lord spread out his net in order to enclose her.
The destructive wind, which was behind him, he sent forth into her face.
As Tiâmat opened her mouth full wide,
He[729] drove in the destructive wind, so that she could not close her lips.
The strong winds inflated her stomach.
Her heart was beset,[730] she opened still wider her mouth,[731]
He seized the spear and plunged it into her stomach,