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In Assyrian texts Bel was a title of Ashur, rather than Marduk. [84] Nabu: Borsippa, [85] Kalhu [86] Mercury [85] Nabu was the Mesopotamian god of scribes and writing. [85] His wife was the goddess Tashmetu [85] and he may have been associated with the planet Mercury, [85] though the evidence has been described as “circumstantial” by ...
The Sebitti also appear in Assyrian palaces alongside other protector demons and deities, in relief along the walls of the palace. [1] Two plaques from the palace of Assurbanipal likely contain the group, one with three gods and the opposite with four. [1] Each are armed with a hatchet and a dagger. [1]
The myth possibly has Assyrian roots, as a fragmented version may have been found in the library of Ashurbanipal, though translations remain unsure. Its most complete surviving version was recorded in Akkadian. The myth begins with humans being created by the mother goddess Mami to lighten the gods' workload. She made them out of a mixture of ...
The god Marduk and his dragon MušαΈ«uššu. Ancient Mesopotamian religion encompasses the religious beliefs (concerning the gods, creation and the cosmos, the origin of man, and so forth) and practices of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia between circa 6000 BC [1] and 400 AD.
Mullissu is a goddess who is the consort of the Assyrian god Asshur. Mullissu may be identical with the Sumerian goddess Ninlil, wife of the god Enlil, which would parallel the fact that Asshur himself was modeled on Enlil. Mullissu's name was written d nin.líl. [1] [2] Mullissu is identified with Ishtar of Nineveh in the Neo-Assyrian Empire ...
Ashur, Ashshur, also spelled Ašur, Aššur (Sumerian: ππΉ, romanized: AN.ŠARβ, Assyrian cuneiform: ππΉ Aš-šur, πππ³π¬ α΅a-šurβ) [1] was the national god of the Assyrians in ancient times until their gradual conversion to Christianity between the 1st and 5th centuries AD.
The character of the Weidner god list has been described as "pedagogic". [13] A number of copies have been identified as scribal exercises. [7] It is agreed that its use as part of scribal school curriculum was widespread [14] at least since the Middle Babylonian period, though it might have already fulfilled such a role in some locations in the Old Babylonian period. [15]
Anshar ( ππΉ AN.ŠARβ, Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: ππΉ, lit. ' whole sky ') was a Mesopotamian god regarded as a primordial king of the gods. He was not actively worshiped. He was regarded as the father of Anu. In the first millennium BCE his name came to be used as a logographic representation of the head god in the Assyrian state ...