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  2. Dumuzid - Wikipedia

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    Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz (Sumerian: ๐’Œ‰๐’ฃ, romanized: Dumuzid; Akkadian: Duสพลซzu, Dûzu; Hebrew: ืชึทึผืžึผื•ึผื–, romanized: Tammลซz), [a] [b] known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd (Sumerian: ๐’Œ‰๐’ฃ๐’‰บ๐’‡ป, romanized: Dumuzid sipad) [3] and to the Canaanites as Adon (Phoenician: ๐ค€๐คƒ๐ค; Proto-Hebrew: ๐ค€๐คƒ๐ค), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity ...

  3. Abzu - Wikipedia

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    The Abzû or Apsû (Sumerian: ๐’€Š๐’ช abzû; Akkadian: ๐’€Š๐’ช apsû), also called E ngar (Cuneiform: ๐’‡‰, LAGAB×HAL; Sumerian: engar; Akkadian: engurru – lit. ab = 'water' zû = 'deep', recorded in Greek as แผˆπασฯŽν Apasแน“n [1]), is the name for fresh water from underground aquifers which was given a religious fertilising quality in ancient near eastern cosmology, including ...

  4. Ancient Mesopotamian underworld - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Sumerian cylinder seal impression showing the god Dumuzid being tortured in the underworld by galla demons. The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erแนฃetu), was the lowermost part of the ancient near eastern cosmos, roughly parallel to the region known as Tartarus from early Greek cosmology.

  5. Enki - Wikipedia

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    Enki (Sumerian: ๐’€ญ๐’‚—๐’†  D EN-KI) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki.He was later known as Ea (Akkadian: ๐’€ญ๐’‚๐’€€) or Ae [5] in Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) religion, and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion.

  6. Dragon Quest III - Wikipedia

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    A compilation album of Dragon Quest III ' s music was put on Dragon Quest III ~And into the Legend...~ Remix Symphonic Suite and was published by Sony Records in 1996. [49] In 2011 Sugiyama played a concert focused on Dragon Quest III in his "Family Classic Concert" series he has done for many years, playing fifteen of the games songs. [50]

  7. Lexical lists - Wikipedia

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    Ea A = nâqu, a sign list with the format: Sumerian gloss–Sumerian sign–Akkadian translation which eventually grew to 8-tablets and a line-count of around 2,400 by the Neo-Babylonian period[MSL XIV [p 2] [14] Ebla syllabaries, vocabulary and sign list, c. 2400 BC, one of the syllabories is an adaption of LU A to local Syrian vernacular

  8. Hubur - Wikipedia

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    They also noted a connection between the "Water of Life" in the legend of Adapa and a myth translated by A.H. Sayce called "An address to the river of creation". [3] Delitzch has suggested the similar Sumerian word Habur probably meant "mighty water source", "source of fertility" or the like.

  9. Ekur - Wikipedia

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    Nungal is the Sumerian goddess who was given the title "Queen of the Ekur". The hymn Nungal in the Ekur describes the dark side of the complex with a house that "examines closely both the righteous and the wicked and does not allow the wicked to escape". This house is described as having a "River of ordeal" which leads to the "mouth of ...