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@hynpos myth event — Day 13: Favorite Mesopotamian/Sumerian deity
Adad — God of Weather, Hurricanes, Storms, Thunder and Rain. | His Sumerian counterpart is known as Iškur.
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Ereshkigal, the Mesopotamian goddess of Irkalla, the land of the dead or underworld. She was the only one who could pass judgment and give laws in her kingdom. The main temple dedicated to her was located in Kutha.
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World Mythologies + Death Deities
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World Mythologies + Ocean Deities
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Mythology Around the World: Common Themes:
Queens
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Mythology Around the World: Common Themes:
Spring
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Ereshkigal, Mesopotamian Goddess of the World Below, the Land of No Return and ruler of the Realm of Death
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Tiamat | primordial goddess
Tiamat is a chaos monster, a primordial goddess of the ocean, mating with Abzû, the god of fresh water, to produce younger gods. She is “Ummu-Hubur” who formed all things.
Tiamat possessed the Tablets of Destiny and in the primordial battle she gave them to Kingu, the deity she had chosen as her lover and the leader of her host, and who was also one of her children. The deities gathered in terror, but Marduk, first extracting a promise that he would be revered as “king of the gods”, overcame her, armed with the arrows of the winds, a net, a club, and an invincible spear.
Slicing Tiamat in half, he made from her ribs the vault of heaven and earth. Her weeping eyes became the source of the Tigris and the Euphrates, her tail became the Milky Way. With the approval of the elder deities, he took from Kingu the Tablets of Destiny, installing himself as the head of the Babylonian pantheon. Kingu was captured and later was slain: his red blood mixed with the red clay of the Earth would make the body of humankind.