Omoroca

[Lt Colonel John Sheppard]

Omoroca - Babylonian - There was a time in which there exited nothing but darkness and an abyss of waters, wherein resided most hideous beings, which were produced of a two-fold principle. There appeared men, some of whom were furnished with two wings, others with four, and with two faces. They had one body but two heads: the one that of a man, the other of a woman. Other human figures were to be seen with the legs and horns of goats: some had horses' feet: while others united the hindquarters of a horse with the body of a man, resembling in shape the hippocentaurs. Bulls likewise were bred there with the heads of men; and dogs with fourtold bodies, terminated in their extremities with the tails of fishes: horses also with the heads of dogs: men too and other animals, with the heads and bodies of horses and the tails of fishes. The person who presided over them, was a woman named Omoroca, which means the sea. All things being in this situation, Belus came and cut the woman asunder: and of one half of her he formed the Earth, and the other half the heavens; and at the same time destroyed the animals within her. She is also linked with Tiamat, who is a huge, bloated female dragon that personifies the salthingyer ocean, the water of Chaos. She is the primoridal mother of all that exists, including the gods themselves.




Omoroca - Babylonian - She left behind her mate, Nem, on their volcanic desert world of Oannes to go to Earth in order to help humanity overthrow the Goa'uld rule and free themselves from enslavement. She battled Belus, a Goa'uld leading a people who believed their god found pleasure, as they did, in every agony inflincted on their foes. Nem, knowing only that his mate had travelled to Babylon to battle the Goa'uld Belus, lived alone for 4,000 years, uncertain of Omoroca's fate. When he captured Daniel, he found the truth about what happened to his mate, Omoroca. (Fire And Water, The Tomb, Full Circle)