Tiberian: Mərōḏaḵ) is a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of Babylon who eventually rose to power in the 1st millennium BC. In Babylon, Marduk was worshipped...
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Amel-Marduk (Babylonian cuneiform: Amēl-Marduk, meaning "man of Marduk"), also known as Awil-Marduk, or under the biblical rendition of his name, Evil-Merodach...
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of Marduk, also known as the Statue of Bêl (Bêl, meaning "lord", being a common designation for Marduk), was the physical representation of the god Marduk...
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Marduk, the creation of man destined for the service of the Mesopotamian deities, and it ends with a long passage praising Marduk. The rise of Marduk...
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to the god Ashur. The city of Babylon also seemingly rebelled against Marduk, and Nabu learned that Marduk was taken to the river ordeal. Marduk claims...
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Bel (mythology) (redirect from Bel (god))
with Bel Marduk. The god Malak-bel of Palmyra is an example, attested as a messenger of Bel but existing as a deity separate to Bel/Marduk. Similarly...
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List of water deities (redirect from Sea god and river god)
father of all other gods. Enbilulu, god of rivers and canals. Enki, god of water and of the river Tigris. Marduk, god associated with water, vegetation...
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Enki (redirect from Ea (Babylonian god))
appear in the Marduk epic celebrating the achievements of this god and the close connection between the Ea cult at Eridu and that of Marduk. The correlation...
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The infernal names (category Pan (god))
Loki—Teutonic devil Mammon—Aramaic god of wealth and profit Mania—Etruscan goddess of Hell Mantus—Etruscan god of Hell Marduk—god of the city of Babylon Mastema—Hebrew...
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familiar figure, the omnipotent sky god who can also take the form of the sun god or the god of storms. "Marduk (God)". Fee, Christopher R. (2004). Gods...
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In the epic that is given the modern title Erra, the writer Kabti-ilani-Marduk, a descendant, he says, of Dabibi, presents himself in a colophon following...
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Nabu (redirect from Nebo (god))
Babylonians in the 1st millennium BC when he was identified as the son of the god Marduk. Nabu was worshipped in Babylon's sister city Borsippa, from where his...
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are listed as the most powerful among the Anunnaki, alongside Marduk, the national god of ancient Babylon. In the standard Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh...
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Enki's son, the storm-god Marduk, but not before she conjures forth monsters whose bodies she fills with "poison instead of blood." Marduk dismembers her, and...
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God of Babylon was Marduk, and this god was recognized in Babylonian astrology as the planet Jupiter. Marduk was recognized as the most powerful god,...
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Foundation of Heaven and Earth') was a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in the ancient city of Babylon. It now exists only in ruins, located about...
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general of her army. However, like Tiamat, Qingu was eventually killed by Marduk. Marduk used Qingu's blood to create the first human beings, while Tiamat's...
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Imhullu is a divine wind weapon used by the sky god Marduk to savage the water goddess Tiamat in the Mesopotamian story of creation Enūma Eliš. Mesopotamian...
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material based on them) in a Babylonian context refers to the Babylonian god Bel Marduk. Though often identified with Greek Zeus and Latin Jupiter as Zeus Belos...
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Sennacherib of Assyria. Babylonia mainly focused on the god Marduk, who is the national god of the Babylonian empire. However, there were also other...
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Enlil (section Chief god and arbitrator)
was eventually supplanted as the chief god of the Mesopotamian pantheon by the Babylonian national god Marduk. Enlil plays a vital role in the ancient...
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history of the Babylonians, especially those of king Nebuchadnezzar II and Marduk, god-patron of the city of Babylon, capital of the Persian Empire. "I Won't...
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head of Heaven's army. In ancient times, the Sumerians worshipped Marduk as a god after seeing a previous battle his legions of Hell took part in on...
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Esagila (redirect from Temple of Marduk)
temple dedicated to Marduk, the protector god of Babylon. It lay south of the ziggurat Etemenanki. In this temple was the statue of Marduk, surrounded by cult...
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complain about their work, Marduk creates humans out of the blood of the god Kingu. The grateful gods build a temple for Marduk in Babylon. This is similar...
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only one name; Marduk had fifty with which his praises as victor over Tiamat were sung in hymns. Similarly, the Egyptian god Re is the god with many names...
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god of Borsippa during the reign of Hammurabi. As evidenced by god lists, he was syncretised with Marduk in later periods, similar to Asalluhi, a god...
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glazed bricks and depictions of bulls (symbols of the god Adad) and dragons (symbols of the god Marduk). Similar bricks were used for the walls surrounding...
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period, Asalluhi gradually became syncretized with Marduk, eventually becoming another name for Marduk. The name Asalluhi is written phonetically as dasal-lú-ḫi...
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