Note 711 — Chapter XXI
Reading edition
An epithet descriptive of Tiâmat. "Ummu" is "mother" and "khubur" signifies "hollow"; "mother of the hollow" would be a poetic expression for "source of the deep," and an appropriate term to apply to Tiâmat. It has nothing to do with Omoroka. The latter, as Wright has shown, is a corruption of "O Marduk" (Zeits. f. Assyr. x. 71-74).