Erra (sometimes called Irra) is an Akkadian plague god known from an 'epos' of the eighth century BCE. Erra is the god of mayhem and pestilence who is...
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Erra (stylized as ERRA) is an American progressive metalcore band from Birmingham, Alabama, formed in 2009. The band was named after the homonymous Akkadian...
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Erra can refer to: Erra (god), a Babylonian god Erra, Estonia, a settlement in Sonda Parish, Ida-Viru County, Estonia Erra, the purported home planet of...
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List of death deities (redirect from God of death)
also present in the Mesopotamian An-Anum god list.) Nungal (Babylonian mythology), daughter of Ereshkigal Erra (god) Ugur (Hurrian religion; also a sukkal...
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"Finding God Before God Finds Me"". Vampster. Retrieved March 8, 2024. Enis, Eli (February 13, 2023). "Bad Omens announce U.S. tour with Erra and Invent...
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Marduk (section Epic of Erra)
anger. In the Erra epic, Erra convinced Marduk to leave Esagil and to go to the netherworld, leaving Erra to become king. Afterwards, Erra wreaks havoc...
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Ishbi-Erra (Akkadian: 𒀭𒅖𒁉𒀴𒊏 diš-bi-ir₃-ra) was the founder of the dynasty of Isin, reigning from c. 2017 — c. 1986 BC (MC). Ishbi-Erra was preceded...
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Ishum (section Erra and Ishum)
underworld deities, especially Nergal (or Erra) and Shubula. He was associated with fire, but was not exclusively a fire god unlike Gibil. While he was not considered...
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and Ellil. In the eighth-century BC Poem of Erra, the Anunnaki are described as the brothers of the god Nergal and are depicted as antagonistic towards...
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Enki (redirect from Ea (Babylonian god))
instead of cuneiform script. Enki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒂗𒆠 DEN-KI) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and...
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List of Mesopotamian deities (redirect from Mesopotamian god)
2018 Horry, Ruth (2016), "Erra (god); God of war and plagues, who later became closely associated with the underworld god Nergal", Ancient Mesopotamian...
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List of war deities (redirect from God of war)
war, and healing Ugur, a war god of Mesopotamian origin Adad, a weather god often portrayed as a warrior Erra, a god of war associated with Nergal,...
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Apkallu (section The Poem of Erra)
Poem of Erra; Tablet 1, line 147.(Kvanvig 2011, pp. 161–2) The seven sages are also mentioned in the Epic of Erra (aka 'Song of Erra', or 'Erra and Ishum');...
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Dynasty of Isin (section Reign of Ishbi-Erra)
Babylonian Empire. Ishbi-Erra (fl. c. 1953—1920 BCE by the short chronology) was the founder of the Dynasty of Isin. Ishbi-Erra of the First Dynasty of...
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List of fire deities (redirect from Fire god)
god Shamash, and an attendant of Erra Nusku, god of heavenly and earthly fire and light, and patron of the arts Shamash, ancient Mesopotamian Sun god...
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has been proposed that Iyarri might have developed from the Mesopotamian god Erra, or that he was influenced by him. A different proposal considers his name...
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Uta-napishtim is tasked by the god Enki to abandon his worldly possessions and create a giant ship to be called Preserver of Life. In Erra and Išum, Marduk is said...
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Dagon (redirect from Dagan (god))
introduced from Mari and were linked only by their northwestern origin. Ishbi-Erra of Isin, assumed to be of Amorite origin and described by Ibbi-Sin of Ur...
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Nabu (redirect from Nebo (god))
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: נְבוֹ, romanized: Nəḇo) is the Babylonian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom. He is associated with...
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Kakka (redirect from Gaga (god))
settlements in the Diyala basin. One of the sons of Ishbi-Erra bore the name Ishbi-Erra-naram-Kakka, "Ishbi-Erra is the beloved of Kakka". This choice might indicate...
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considered subjects of Pazuzu. A text placing her in the entourage of the god Erra is also known. Incantations directed against her are attested as early...
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List of people who have been considered deities (redirect from List of people who have said they are a god)
hero Divinity#Mortal Divinization (Christian) Euhemerism Folk saint God complex God in Hinduism Godman (Hindu ascetic) Hero cult Idolatry Imperial cult...
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Sumerian King List gives a 33-year reign for Ishbi-Erra only one royal inscription has been found. "For the god Enlil, lord of the foreign lands, his lord, Isbi-Err[a]...
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Sebitti (section Weapons or servants of Erra)
Seven appear as characters in the Erra Epic, a text from the early first millennium that describes the titular god Erra (Nergal) going on a warpath and...
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Gibil (redirect from Gerra (god))
from the root *ḥrr, "to burn" or "to scorch", similarly as another theonym, Erra. Jeremy Black and Anthony Green treat names Gibil and Girra as referring...
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Šanta (redirect from Sandon (god))
Šanta's assistants can be compared to the seven helpers of the Mesopotamian god Erra (the Sebitti). Oldest known attestations of Šanta comes from the eighteenth...
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Erra, who came to be identified with Nergal from the Old Babylonian period onward. In the Epic of Erra, she appears as the wife of the eponymous god,...
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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...
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