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While suggestions that she was conflated with the mongoose deity Ninkilim can be found in modern literature, this theory finds no direct support in primary sources. Her importance declined in the second millennium BCE, but in some locations, such as Ur, she was still worshiped after the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia in the first millennium ...
They had the mongoose as a son. [10] The mongoose was close to his grandfather ǀKaggen. [16] ǀKaggen used to take honey to feed his favourite, the eland. [17] The people were curious as to what ǀKaggen was doing with the honey, so they sent the mongoose to spy on him and find out. [17]
They include the deified hero Lugalbanda and his wife Ninsun, [111] Lugal-Marada, the tutelary god of Marad, [65] the mongoose deity Ninkilim, [112] the agricultural god Urash (his court includes Lagamal, in other lists present among underworld deities), [113] Nitaḫ, [109] the war god Zababa (whose section also includes Nergal's sukkal Ugur ...
A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae. This family has two subfamilies, the Herpestinae and the Mungotinae . The Herpestinae comprises 23 living species that are native to southern Europe , Africa and Asia , whereas the Mungotinae comprises 11 species native to Africa. [ 2 ]
In art, Mafdet was alternately shown as a feline or mongoose, a woman with such a head, or such an animal with the head of a woman. [3] The type of feline varies but is commonly interpreted as a cheetah or serval. She also was depicted in her animal form running up the side of an executioner's staff of office.
Amun – A creator god, Tutelary deity of the city of Thebes, and the preeminent deity in ancient Egypt during the New Kingdom [4] Anhur – A god of war and hunting [5] [6] [7] Anubis – The god of funerals, embalming and protector of the dead [8] Apis – A live Bull worshiped as a god at Memphis and seen as a manifestation of Ptah [9]
Wadjet is occasionally depicted as other animal headed beings or depicted as other animals such as a lion, mongoose, Ichneumonidae. Notably the depiction of the mongoose serves as an antithesis to that of the cobra as it is a natural predator. While the Icheumon probably serves as a depiction of Wedjat's role in seeing for Horus.
In Japan, there was a deity called Ebisu-gami who, according to Sakurada Katsunori, was widely revered by fishing communities and industries. [72] Ebisu, in later traditions, normally appeared in the form of a fisherman holding a fishing pole and carrying a red tai (a perch), but would sometimes take the form of a whale, shark, human corpse, or ...