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