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The etymology for the name Marduk is generally understood to be derived from d amar-utu-(a)k, meaning "bull-calf of Utu". [6] Sommerfield suggests this is used to explain the name Marduk in the Enuma Elish: as "He is the "son of the sun [a]" of the gods, radiant is he."
The god list An = Anu ša amēli refers to him as Marduk ša patati, "Marduk of the canals." [24] He is also listed as the Sumerian counterpart of Marduk in an Emesal vocabulary. [9] In a single hymn, Enbilulu occurs as a name of Nabu rather than Marduk. [9]
The Statue of Marduk, also known as the Statue of Bêl (Bêl, meaning "lord", being a common designation for Marduk), [2] was the physical representation of the god Marduk, the patron deity of the ancient city of Babylon, traditionally housed in the city's main temple, the Esagila. There were seven statues of Marduk in Babylon, but 'the' Statue ...
In Kalhu and Nineveh he eventually became more common in personal names than the Assyrian head god Ashur. [86] He also replaced Ninurta as the main god of Kalhu. [86] In the Neo-Babylonian periods some inscriptions of kings such as Nebuchadnezzar II indicate that Nabu could take precedence even over the supreme Babylonian god Marduk. [86]
The name of the wife of Asalluhi was probably Panunanki or Eru(a), judging by how both names were known as alternative names for Marduk's wife Zarpanit. [61] A goddess known as Ninmeḫama appeared together with Asalluhi in The Lamentation for Sumer and Ur. Her actual name could probably be Nin é-HA.A-ke 4, meaning "lady of the temple of Kuara."
Exodus 32:4 [19] reads "He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said, 'This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt'." Nehemiah 9:18 [20] reads "even when they made an idol shaped like a calf and said, 'This is your god who brought you out of Egypt ...
A god named Bel was the chief-god of Palmyra, Syria in pre-Hellenistic times, being worshipped alongside the gods Aglibol and Yarhibol. [3] Originally, he was known as Bol, [4] after the Northwestern Semitic word Ba'al [5] (usually used to refer to the god Hadad), until the cult of Bel-Marduk spread to Palmyra and by 213 BC, Bol was renamed to Bel. [4]
Amel-Marduk (Babylonian cuneiform: Amēl-Marduk, [1] meaning "man of Marduk"), [1] also known as Awil-Marduk, [2] or under the biblical rendition of his name, Evil-Merodach [1] (Biblical Hebrew: אֱוִיל מְרֹדַךְ , ʾĔwīl Mərōḏaḵ), was the third emperor of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from 562 BCE until his overthrow and murder in 560 BCE.