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Mesopotamian divination was divination within the Mesopotamian period.. Perceptual elements utilized in the practice of a divinatory technique included the astronomical (stars and meteorites), weather and the calendar, the configuration of the earth and waterways and inhabited areas, the outward appearance of inanimate objects and also vegetation, elements stemming from the behavior and the ...
Weidner god list is the conventional name of one of the known ancient Mesopotamian lists of deities, originally compiled by ancient scribes in the late third millennium BCE, with the oldest known copy dated to the Ur III or the Isin-Larsa period. Further examples have been found in many excavated Mesopotamian cities, and come from between the ...
The names of over 3,000 Mesopotamian deities have been recovered from cuneiform texts. [19] [16] Many of these are from lengthy lists of deities compiled by ancient Mesopotamian scribes. [19] [20] The longest of these lists is a text entitled An = Anum, a Babylonian scholarly work listing the names of over 2,000 deities.
His name was surely taken from Ba'al Berith, a form of Baal worshiped in Berith , Phoenicia. In Alchemy Berith was the element with which all metals could be transmuted into gold. [citation needed] "Berith" is the Hebrew word for covenant, it was originated from the Akkadian (Babylonian) word "Biritu" which means "to fetter" or "to bond".
Nungal (Babylonian mythology), daughter of Ereshkigal; Erra (god) Ugur (Hurrian religion; [6] also a sukkal of Nergal [7]) Ninazu; Ningishzida; Allani; Enmesharra, a primordial deity described as "lord of the underworld" Kanisurra, a goddess whose name is derived from the term "ganzer," referring to the underworld (Mesopotamian)
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."
An Old Babylonian incantation describes Nunura preparing a saḫar, a porous vessel used as a container for water in exorcisms, from clay earlier cleansed by the purification goddess Kusu. [1] A text found in Nimrud contains the phrase "Nunurra, fired from a great kiln", likely the beginning of another unpreserved formula.
Necromancy (/ ˈ n ɛ k r ə m æ n s i /) [1] [2] is the practice of magic involving communication with the dead by summoning their spirits as apparitions or visions for the purpose of divination; imparting the means to foretell future events and discover hidden knowledge.