>>21592595This is why the final dungeon of Windows version of Giten Megami Tensei, where we face Baal, in his fish-shaped armor of the holy messiah, is an aquatic blue liminal space with crosses and winged serpents at the doors. He also turns into a frog after being defeated like a male member of the Ogdoad.
The Didanu/Ditanu, the ancestor of the Amorites identified with El (Cronos/Moloch) by them, was related to the stars of Centaurus and in that sense guarded the mysteries of the deep, the seven sages as teachers and developers of humanity were understood as emerging from the Abzu, and were also non-human before the hybrid scribe and scholar classes became seen as entirely human, these the Ab-gal/Apkallu, great one of the deep, who taught the Tree of Life to the Sumerians.
These Apkallu were priests of Enki (Dagon in Canaan, the brother of El and adoptive father of Baal), the first Apkallu is Adapa, the Sumerian Adam, and the last Apkallu is Utuabzu, "who ascended to heaven", like Enoch. Among them are five other Apkallu that exactly match the five antediluvian biblical patriarchs between Adam and Enoch. According to Rabbinic Tradition, there were Two Leviathans (Tannin), a male and a female, the female was killed and her skin was transformed in garments by Elohim, who gave them to Adam and his descendants, which passed to Nimrod (Enmerkar, who was the later king with his wise Nungalpirigal to the king Enmeduranki and his sage Utuabzu/Enoch after the Flood), which was taken by Esau (Edom) who murdered him and then deceived Jacob (Israel) who used them to receive the blessings of his father Isaac as the chosen one to build a great nation for Elohim.
>The commentary of the Rosh on the Torah (Hadar Zekainim) citing an older Midrash states that the clothes of skin were made ‘from the skin of the partner of the Leviathan, that the Holy Blessed One slaughtered and salted the remnant for the righteous in the world to come. See Torah Shleimah Genesis 3 – 186. 