What is a Marduk?


When Mononobe Yuu fights Hecatoncher, Yggdrasil tells him he needs to give up
more memories because he has an "Incomplete Marduk".

In mithology, [Marduk is the Babylonian
god](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marduk) that fought Tiamat.

Also [wikipedia erroneously names Yuu's cannon as
Marduk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlimited_Fafnir). The cannon's name is
Babel.




In _Juuou Mujin no Fafnir_ , Yuu contracts with the oldest Dragon Yggdrasil.
This allows him to get blueprints for weapons from an ancient lost
civilization. If you look carefully, all of the weapons are names of
Mesopotamian myth, especially with Babylon. If you know Babel, it was
attributed to the Mesopotamian god Marduk (not Babel, but associated with a
similar structure [Etemenanki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etemenanki)).

So essentially, **Marduk** is a **huge weapon** and **Babel** is its **main
cannon** which stops Leviathan. As [nhahtdh pointed out in the
comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21176/what-is-a-
marduk/21323#comment28667_21176), Megiddo and Noah are the other cannons. So
to complete the whole weapon Marduk, he needs to give up more memories. In
essence, you can think of Marduk as a huge battleship and Babel as one of its
cannons.

For Tower of Babel allusions: [Tower of Babel -
Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel)

