The conventional writing of Nergal's name changed through history. In the earliest sources, it was written as KIŠ.UNU, as attested in texts from Shuruppak, Abu Salabikh, Adab and Ebla from the third millennium … 查看更多內容

Nergal's role as a god of the underworld is already attested in an Early Dynastic zami hymn dedicated to Kutha, where he is additionally associated with the so-called "Enki-Ninki … 查看更多內容

Nergal's main cult center was Kutha, where his temple E-Meslam was located. Andrew R. George proposes the translation "house, warrior of the netherworld" for its name. A secondary name of the E-Meslam was E-ḫuškia, "fearsome house of the underworld." It … 查看更多內容

Nergal is mentioned in the Book of Kings as the deity of the city of Cuth (Kutha): "And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal" (2 Kings, 17:30). 查看更多內容

The god most closely associated with Nergal was Erra, whose name was Akkadian rather than Sumerian and can be understood as "scorching." Despite his origin, he is … 查看更多內容

Nergal and Ereshkigal
Two versions of this myth are known, one from a single Middle Babylonian copy found in Amarna, seemingly copied by a scribe whose native language was not Akkadian and another known from Sultantepe and … 查看更多內容

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