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Kingu, also spelled Qingu (𒀭𒆥𒄖, d kin-gu, lit. ' unskilled laborer '), was a god in Babylonian mythology, and the son of the gods Abzu and Tiamat. [1] After the murder of his father, Apsu, he served as the consort of his mother, Tiamat, who wanted to establish him as ruler and leader of all gods before she was killed by Marduk.
It is thought that the proper name ti'amat, which is the vocative or construct form, was dropped in secondary translations of the original texts, because some Akkadian copyists of Enuma Elish substituted the ordinary word tāmtu ('sea') for Tiamat, the two names having become essentially the same due to association. [5]
In texts from Ugarit written in syllabic cuneiform, the sign sequence A.AB.BA, elsewhere read as the Akkadian word tâmtu, could be employed to write the ordinary word yammu as well as Yam’s name, as attested in a lexical text mentioning d A.AB.BA and by the logographic writing of the theophoric name ‘bdym, ÌR.A.AB.BA. [23] However, d A.AB ...
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He is brother to Garsivaz, and the son of Pashang. He was an enemy of Rostam and Kay Khosrow , and was defeated by them. According to Islamic sources, Afrasiab was a descendant of Tūr (Avestan: Tūriya- ), one of the three sons of the Iranian mythical King Fereydun (the other two sons being Salm and Iraj ).
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Sumerian name in Old Babylonian cuneiform, d Dim 3-me [1]. In Mesopotamian mythology, Lamashtu (𒀭𒈕𒈨; Akkadian d La-maš-tu; Sumerian Dimme d Dim 3-me or Kamadme [2]) is a demonic Mesopotamian deity with the "head of a lion, the teeth of a donkey, naked breasts, a hairy body, hands stained (with blood?), long fingers and fingernails, and the feet of Anzû". [3]
The full extract from Prince Harry's memoir Spare, in which he details his controversial "kill count" of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, can be published for the first time by Yahoo.. The Duke of ...