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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 Abzû or Apsû (Sumerian: ππͺ abzû; Akkadian: ππͺ apsû), also called E ngar (Cuneiform: π, LAGAB×HAL; Sumerian: engar; Akkadian: engurru – lit. ab = 'water' zû = 'deep', recorded in Greek as αΌπασΟν ApasαΉn [1]), is the name for fresh water from underground aquifers which was given a religious fertilising quality in ancient near eastern cosmology, including ...
Ash, Egyptian God of Wine and Oases. Bacchus, Roman god of wine, usually identified with the Greek Dionysus. Ba-Maguje, Hausa spirit of drunkenness. Bes, Egyptian god, protector of the home, and patron of beer brewers. Biersal/Bierasal/Bieresal, Germanic kobold of the beer cellar. Ceraon, who watched over the mixing of wine with water.
Enki (Sumerian: πππ 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: πππ) or Ae [5] in Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) religion, and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion.
Ištaran was a prominent [178] god, who served as the tutelary deity of the Sumerian city-state of Der, which was located east of the Tigris river on the border between Mesopotamia and Elam. [163] His wife was the goddess Šarrat-DΔri, whose name means "Queen of Der", [ 163 ] or alternatively Manzat (goddess of the rainbow), [ 178 ] and his ...
"Sumerian cities each had their own gods but acknowledged the supremacy of...Enlil." [33] Enki was god of freshwater, male fertility, and knowledge. [20]: 75 His most important cult center was the E-abzu temple in the city of Eridu. [20]: 75 He was the patron and creator of humanity [20]: 75 and the sponsor of human culture.
Since the clue uses the country's Italian name – Italia – the answer will be the Italian name of Rome, which is ROMA. NAAN (54D: Bread served with palak paneer) Palak paneer is a vegetarian ...
The only indication of an association with a local pantheon other than that of Eridu is the epithet assigned to her in the god list An = Anum (tablet I, line 27), munus agrig-zi-é-kur-(ra-)ke 4, "true housekeeper of Ekur", but it might have only been assigned to her due to confusion with similarly named Ninimma, who was a member of Enlil's ...