Underworld deity worshipped throughout Mesopotamia.
1Interestingly enough, he is sometimes seen as having Nergal as an aspect.
2Nergal is other times seen as a separate entity in opposition to Shamash.
3Another god held in peculiar honor by the Babylonians was Nergal.
4We have no distinct evidence that Nergal was worshipped in the primitive times.
5If so, Nergal was at once the slayer and the slain.
6All these successes he ascribes to the powerful protection of Nin and Nergal.
7Nergal accepts the condition, kisses Allatu, and wipes away her tears.
8This myth may be an echo of Nergal's raid against Eresh-ki-gal.
9Thus he is equated with En-Urta, Nergal, En-lil, Nabû, Sin, Shamash, Adad, etc.
10According to the charms, these invisible enemies of man were of the brood of Nergal.
11And before you were Nergal, you were the champion of the humankind: you were Huitzilopochtli.
12Nergal had a wife, called Laz, of whom, however, nothing is known beyond her name.
13Statues were also shown being destroyed reportedly at an archaeological site known as the Nergal Gate.
14Nergal became the feverish and destructive summer sun.
15See Nergal for the rest of the story.
16Nergal accepted these terms by kissing the goddess.