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Enki (Sumerian: ๐ญ๐๐ 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: ๐ญ๐๐) or Ae [5] in Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) religion, and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion.
Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz (Sumerian: ๐๐ฃ, romanized: Dumuzid; Akkadian: Duสพลซzu, Dûzu; Hebrew: ืชึทึผืึผืึผื, romanized: Tammลซz), [a] [b] known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd (Sumerian: ๐๐ฃ๐บ๐ป, romanized: Dumuzid sipad) [3] and to the Canaanites as Adon (Phoenician: ๐ค๐ค๐ค; Proto-Hebrew: ๐ค๐ค๐ค), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity ...
The Abzû or Apsû (Sumerian: ๐๐ช abzû; Akkadian: ๐๐ช apsû), also called E ngar (Cuneiform: ๐, LAGAB×HAL; Sumerian: engar; Akkadian: engurru – lit. ab = 'water' zû = 'deep', recorded in Greek as แผπασฯν Apasแนn [1]), is the name for fresh water from underground aquifers which was given a religious fertilising quality in ancient near eastern cosmology, including ...
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.
The deities typically wore melam, an ambiguous substance which "covered them in terrifying splendor" [3] and which could also be worn by heroes, kings, giants, and even demons. [4] The effect that seeing a deity's melam has on a human is described as ni, a word for the "physical creeping of the flesh". [5]
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.
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]
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 ...