Actually Tiamat of Babylonian myth isn't listed as evil in any of the mythology/archeaology texts I've looked her up in. There's mythology and there's Gygaxology. Unfortunately it seems that D&D's one lasting contribution to pop culture has been to teach people a lot of falsehoods about ancient mythology. Thanks to the fact that gaming geeks like me are the ones writing all those durned video games and cartoon shows that our kids are growing up watching/playing. Translation of the actual myth: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Resources/Ane/enumaA.html Commentaries: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/assyrbabyl-faq.html#Tiamat http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/assyrbabyl-faq.html#a1.6 http://www.google.com/search?q=tiamat+myth+babylonian&num=10&meta=hl%3Den%26lr%3D&safe=off Tiamat is one of the early 'earth mother' myths. She has a violent death as one of those wars where one generation of gods kills it's parent generation. She originally did not desire this war but was tricked into it. Her body was used to construct many parts of the world.

Truth has no value without backing by unfounded belief.
Renderosity Gallery