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Qingu
Qingu (ð’€ð’†¥ð’„–, qin-gu; less commonly romanized as Kingu) was a Mesopotamian god. He is best known from the EnÅ«ma EliÅ¡, where he acts as a subordinate and spouse of Tiamat, and an adversary of Marduk. After his defeat he is killed and his blood is used in the creation of mankind. It is presumed that he might have originally been the antagonist of a separate myth unrelated to Tiamat, though this composition does not survive, and the majority of references to him are allusions to his defeat at the hands of Marduk in EnÅ«ma EliÅ¡. He is also mentioned in the myth The Defeat of Enutila, EnmeÅ¡arra, and Qingu and in a variety of other texts.