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  2. Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of a garden of the gods or a divine paradise may have originated in Sumer. [1] The concept of this home of the immortals was later handed down to the Babylonians , who conquered Sumer. [ 1 ]

  3. Marduk - Wikipedia

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    Marduk (Cuneiform: 𒀭𒀫𒌓 ᵈAMAR.UTU; Sumerian: amar utu.k "calf of the sun; solar calf"; Hebrew: מְרֹדַךְ, Modern: Merōdaḵ, Tiberian: Mərōḏaḵ) is a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of Babylon who eventually rose to power in the 1st millennium BC.

  4. The Rats of Tobruk - Wikipedia

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    The Rats of Tobruk hold an identifiable place within the ranks of returned servicemen, particularly in Australia, where there is the Rats of Tobruk Memorial in Canberra. On 22 March 1944, the original members of the Rats of Tobruk formed the North Bondi Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia and it is still known in modern ...

  5. Marduk-apla-iddina II - Wikipedia

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    Marduk-apla-iddina II (Akkadian: D MES.A.SUM-na; in the Bible Merodach-Baladan or Berodach-Baladan, lit. Marduk has given me an heir) was a Chaldean leader from the Bit-Yakin tribe, originally established in the territory that once made the Sealand in southern Babylonia.

  6. Sarpanit - Wikipedia

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    The most common spelling of Zarpanitu's name in cuneiform was d zar-pa-ni-tum. [2] It is romanized as Ṣarpānītu instead by Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, [3] but this choice has been criticized by Wilfred G. Lambert, who points out that while cuneiform does not differentiate between the sounds z and ṣ, supplementary evidence for the former option is provided both by various scholarly ...

  7. Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] Three theories have been suggested to account for this: first, that the gardens were purely mythical, and the descriptions found in ancient Greek and Roman writings (including those of Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus) represented a romantic ideal of an eastern garden; [9] second, that they existed in Babylon but were ...

  8. List of Mesopotamian deities - Wikipedia

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    A fragmentary late neo-Assyrian god list appears to consider her and another figure regarded as the wife of Anu, Urash, as one and the same, and refers to "Ki-Urash." [403] Kittum: Bad-Tibira, Rahabu [404] Kittum was a daughter of Utu and Sherida. [405] Her name means "Truth". [405] Kus: Kus is a god of herdsmen referenced in the Theogony of ...

  9. Dumuzid - Wikipedia

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    The galla capture Dumuzid, but Utu, the god of the Sun, who is also Inanna's brother, rescues Dumuzid by transforming him into a gazelle. [51] Eventually, the galla recapture Dumuzid and drag him down into the Underworld. [50] [52] Terracotta plaque dating to the Amorite Period (c. 2000-1600 BC) showing a dead god (probably Dumuzid) resting in ...