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Ur(i)dimmu, meaning "Mad/howling Dog" or Langdon's "Gruesome Hound", [1] (Sumerian: 𒌨𒅂UR.IDIM and giš.pirig.gal = ur-gu-lu-ú = ur-idim-[mu] in the lexical series ḪAR.gud = imrû = ballu), was an ancient Mesopotamian mythical creature in the form of a human headed dog-man whose first appearance might be during the Kassite period, if the Agum-Kakrime Inscription proves to be a copy of ...
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
The etymology of the sea god Watatsumi is uncertain. Marinus Willem de Visser (1913:137) notes consensus that wata is an Old Japanese word for "sea; ocean" and tsu is a possessive particle, but disagreement whether mi means "snake" or "lord; god". "It is not impossible" he concludes, "that the old Japanese sea-gods were snakes or dragons."
Lugala'abba ("Lord of the Sea" [423]) was a god associated both with the sea and with the underworld. [424] Lugalbanda: Uruk, Nippur, and Kuara [425] Lugalbanda was an early legendary king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, who was later declared to be a god. [425] He is the husband of the goddess Ninsun and the father of the mortal hero ...
Ryūjin (龍神, lit. ' Dragon God '), which in some traditions is equivalent to Ōwatatsumi, was the tutelary deity of the sea in Japanese mythology.In many versions Ryūjin had the ability to transform into a human shape.
Varuna is the god of sea and rain, mentioned in Vedic Literature, but also in Sangam literature as the principal deity of the Neithal Sangam landscape (i.e. littoral landscape). [57] Arasakulam means "clan of kings". [51] They used the Makara as emblem, the mount of their clan deity, the sea god Varuna, which was also seen on their flags.
Furthermore, a myth focused on him, the Song of the Sea, deals with similar themes as the Yam section of the Baal Cycle. [215] Its central theme is the conflict between a weather god, Teššub, and the sea god. [216] The performance of the Song of the Sea was linked to the ritual role of Mount Saphon, referred to as Ḫazzi in this context. [215]
Two Nara period (710–794 CE) historical texts record myths that the Sea God presented the kanju and manju to Hoori, and a Kamakura period (1192–1333 CE) text says the legendary Empress Jingū used the tide jewels to conquer a Korean kingdom in 200 CE.