The Religion of Babylonia And Assyria
The Religion of Babylonia And Assyria
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. " Êa was the god of fertility, hence this ending to the poeticaldescription of the ship of Êa.
Bel.
The deity who is mentioned next in order in the list given above isthe "older Bel, " so called to distinguish him from Bel-Merodach. Hisprincipal names were /Mullil/ (dialectic) or /En-lilla/[1] (standardspeech), the /Illinos/ of Damascius. His name is generally translated"lord of mist, " so-called as god of the underworld, his consort being/Gašan-lil/ or /Nan-lilla/, "the lady of the mist,... " in SemiticBabylonian /Bêltu/, "the Lady, " par excellence. Bel, whose name means"the lord, " was so called because he was regarded as chief of thegods. As there was considerable confusion in consequence of the titleBel having been given to Merodach, Tiglath-pileser I. (about 1200B. C. ) refers to him as the "older Bel" in describing the temple whichhe built for him at Aššur. Numerous names of men compounded with hisoccur until the latest times, implying that, though the favourite godwas Merodach, the worship of Bel was not forgotten, even at Babylon--thathe should have been adored at his own city, Niffur, and atDur-Kuri-galzu, where Kuri-galzu I.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
. " Êa was the god of fertility, hence this ending to the poeticaldescription of the ship of Êa.
Bel.
The deity who is mentioned next in order in the list given above isthe "older Bel, " so called to distinguish him from Bel-Merodach. Hisprincipal names were /Mullil/ (dialectic) or /En-lilla/[1] (standardspeech), the /Illinos/ of Damascius. His name is generally translated"lord of mist, " so-called as god of the underworld, his consort being/Gašan-lil/ or /Nan-lilla/, "the lady of the mist,... " in SemiticBabylonian /Bêltu/, "the Lady, " par excellence. Bel, whose name means"the lord, " was so called because he was regarded as chief of thegods. As there was considerable confusion in consequence of the titleBel having been given to Merodach, Tiglath-pileser I. (about 1200B. C. ) refers to him as the "older Bel" in describing the temple whichhe built for him at Aššur. Numerous names of men compounded with hisoccur until the latest times, implying that, though the favourite godwas Merodach, the worship of Bel was not forgotten, even at Babylon--thathe should have been adored at his own city, Niffur, and atDur-Kuri-galzu, where Kuri-galzu I.
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