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- In Sumerian mythology and later in the religions of Assyria and Babylonia ... the heavens is being denoted. In the old-Babylonian period, i.e. before Hammurabi ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- the deep heavens. However, in later Babylonian mythology, it was the younger ... over Enlil and the older gods in Babylonian mythology and Yahweh's ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- inspired great devotion in the ancient Babylonian empire, as evidenced by ... of some lost story about Isthar and the Babylonian deity Marduk. Their names ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- medicine is sometimes traced to Roman mythology, which describes the god ... putative origins of the caduceus in Babylonian mythology (as described above ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 556 ... As king, Nabonidus was maligned by the priests of the chief Babylonian ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- god, corresponding to Sumerian Utu. In mythology, Shamash was the son of ... In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, it is with Shamash's blessing ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is one of the foundational principles of the universe known as a maelstrom of dark, roiling seawater. ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- role in Mesopotamian religion and mythology. He was the god of the ... In Mesopotamian mythology, Nanna was the son of the sky god Enlil ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 08:45, 9 October 2022
- Enûma Eliš (also transliterated Enuma Elish) is the Babylonian or ... important sources for understanding the Babylonian worldview, centered on ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- Enki was a major deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology. He was originally the chief god of the city of Eridu ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- B.C.E.), but also various Old Babylonian fragments exist. The story ... Enki, who often takes the side of mankind in Babylonian mythology ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- Though the Babylonian/Assyrian god Dumuzi was known by a variety of ... a considerable body of Sumerian and Babylonian mythology. ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- the dead, the Underworld, in Mesopotamian mythology. One of the oldest goddesses ... similar to the use of Hades in Greek mythology to refer to both the Underworld ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- A Jewish inscription from the post-Babylonian period in Elephantine, ... Antu or Antum is a Babylonian goddess, and seems to be a precursor ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- The Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish begins with a description ... rituals until at least the time of the Babylonian exile. The story of Eve ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- In West Semitic mythology, Yam was given kingship over the other gods ... him. A similar sea-demon appears in the mythology of many cultures. The biblical ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- In Sumerian mythology, Ninhursag (NIN.URSAG) was the earth and mother ... his creation of the mountains. In one Babylonian investiture ritual, as ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
- god Marduk and his dragon, from a Babylonian cylinder seal]] ... The idea of dragons was not unique to Herodotus in Greek mythology ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- fullest insights we have into the nature of Greek mythology. ... Although the Theogony is often used as a sourcebook for Greek mythology ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- in the Hindu Puranas, Deucalion in Greek mythology, and Utnapishtim in the ... In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh the story of the Flood is told ...29 KB (4,785 words) - 17:53, 11 November 2023
- of Jerusalem, and after the subsequent Babylonian captivity of the Kingdom ... that seem to indicate the end of the Babylonian captivity which lasted ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- by Joshua. During the early days of the Babylonian exile, the prophet Ezekiel ... probably blended into the Arabic, Babylonian, and Anatolian civilizations ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- south of modern Baghdad. In Mesopotamian mythology Gilgamesh is credited to ... *George, Andrew The Epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian Epic Poem and ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- As long as 500 years after her death, during the Babylonian era, it was used as a text copied by students learning to be scribes in the edubba, or scribal ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- Biblical references also resemble the Babylonian creation epic Enûma Elish ... *[http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htm Enuma Elish (Babylonian ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- worshipers), Etruria, and Babylonia. The Babylonian necromancers were called ... Norse mythology also contains examples of necromancy (Ruickbie 2004 ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- other deities. Thus, by the end of the Babylonian captivity of Judah in the ... of the Vedas, and paralleling the mythology of the Greeks, the Vedic ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- the parent of many other gods. Canaanite mythology about El may have directly ... their nation during and after the Babylonian exile. ===The Council of El=== ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- === Babylonian sources === and mathematicians were influenced by Babylonian astronomy to a limited ...39 KB (6,174 words) - 21:25, 30 January 2024
- by 600 B.C.E. had already begun using Babylonian concepts in their calculations. ... The Greeks grafted the names of their own gods onto the Babylonian ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- *Sargon, et al. The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. State archives of Assyria, v. 17. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 09:47, 26 January 2023
- The word “vampire” is mentioned in Babylonian demonology, and the even ... Vampire-like spirits called the Lilu are mentioned in early Babylonian ...26 KB (4,074 words) - 01:36, 18 April 2023
- Although the text is often used as a sourcebook for Greek mythology ... exemplified in the affirmation of Babylonian kingship in the Enuma Elish ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- and thus gain eternal life is found in various Babylonian legends. In the Amarna tablets, Adapa, the first man, is the son of Ea, god of wisdom, who has ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- similar to those of the Devil. In Hindu mythology, Rahu is a snake that swallows ... Satan as the Devil in Judaism during the Babylonian captivity, thus explaining ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- , Hammurabi (who established the Old Babylonian state), Ashur-uballit I ... were used until the end of the Neo-Babylonian period. Old Aramaic, which ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- ) is a female demon figure found in Mesopotamian mythology and Jewish ... of the demon were found in ancient Babylonian culture, eventually influencing ...47 KB (7,623 words) - 08:39, 8 March 2023
- *Babylonian astrology *Horoscopic astrology and its specific subsets: ... indigenous forms of astrology. This Babylonian astrology came to Greece ...33 KB (4,705 words) - 18:24, 19 August 2023
- to the destruction of humankind. The Babylonian Talmud, for instance, states ... the aforementioned events. In the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Levi asserts ...27 KB (4,237 words) - 16:57, 23 December 2022
- and the captivity, the fifth between the Babylonian period and the time of ... was followed by the Exodus; the Babylonian captivity was followed ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- and Misharu as a judge of the dead. A late Babylonian text makes him the underworld prison warder. The Phoenician inscription on the sarcophagus ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- Jeremiah urged accommodation with the Babylonian Empire, which he saw as ... Jonah – Probably written after the period of Babylonian exile, this ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- B.C.E. when Mesopotamia is united under Babylonian rule. ... the culture god Enki (absorbed into Babylonian mythology as the god Ea), the ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- History") during the Babylonian exile of the sixth century ... (meaning notably, but not only, the Babylonian exile) upon his people ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- In religion, folklore, and mythology, a demon (also rendered daemon ... represent shedim are the shedu of Babylonian mythology. These figures were ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- is shown at the far north, in the Babylonian Empire of Hammarabi. It ... chief Assyrian god, equivalent to the Babylonian Marduk, and it is from ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- five great epics combined: The ancient Babylonian Gilgamesh (3,000 verses ... Though the Epic of Gesar contains elements of ancient Tibetan mythology ...21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- upon a combination of Persian and Babylonian mythology.Van Voorst, 8.Constantin ... The Babylonian Talmud contains several references that have been traditionally ...41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- Biblical narrative of Ham in a racial way. The Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 108b states, "Our Rabbis taught: Three copulated in the ark, and they ...14 KB (2,307 words) - 02:17, 15 January 2023
- Modern histories have replaced mythology with anthropology. Scholars ... By 2000 B.C.E., Sumerian and Babylonian cultures began delineating ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
