Search results for "KUR" - New World Encyclopedia
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- coming of the white man, Gluskabe is known as Klose-kur-beh. Nicolar described Klose-kur-beh's journey in which he is instructed by the "Great ...23 KB (3,545 words) - 07:18, 23 November 2022
- was later abducted by the great dragon Kur, her half-brother, and taken to the Underworld. Enki attempted to rescue her, but this realm became ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- sister), who agreed to take Dumuzid's place in Kur for a certain number of days a year (with the amount varying in different sources). ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- steep crags which rise from the valley of the Kur, at some distance to the west or north-west of Nakshi Rustam. Donald Whitcomb (2003) Archaeology ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- to obey. The world he governed was a mountain (E-kur from E= house and Kur= Mountain); the creatures that he had made lived underground. ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- is the most widely spoken, Kurese is spoken on Kur Island and nearby Kaimeer, where Keiese is used as a lingua franca. Bandanese is spoken on the ...21 KB (3,241 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- in 1385. It was not until 1395, in the battle of Kur River, that the power of Tokhtamysh was finally broken, after a titanic struggle between the two ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- from the autonym of the aboriginal Ainu: "kur," meaning man. It may also be related to names for other islands that have traditionally been ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- chief priest of the god of the air (Lil) at the E-kur temple at the city of Nippur became En-Lil (later Enlil). In their more humanized form, these ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- of the Hurri-men" (without the determinative KUR indicating a country). It is believed that the warring Hurrian tribes and city states became ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
