Marduk – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Marduk
n.
(Babylonian Mythology) main Babylonian god
Marduk
Marduk (
Sumerian spelling in
Akkadian:
dAMAR.UTU "solar calf";
Greek ,
Mardochaios) was a late-generation god from ancient
Mesopotamia and
patron deity of the city of
Babylon. When Babylon became the political center of the
Euphrates valley in the time of
Hammurabi (
18th century BC), he slowly started to rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BC. In the city of Babylon, he resided in the temple Esagila. "Marduk" is the
Babylonian form of his name.
Marduk
Noun
1. the chief Babylonian god; his consort was Sarpanitu
(synonym) Merodach, Baal Merodach, Bel-Merodach
(hypernym) Semitic deity
(classification) Babylon
Mardouk
n.
Marduk (Babylonian Mythology), main Babylonian god
Marduk
[Mesopotamian] Literally, "bulf calf of the sun". The son of Ea, and leader of the gods. He was a fertility god, but originally a god of thunderstorms. His consort was Sarpanitu According to Enuma Elish, an ancient epic poem of creation, Marduk defeated Tiamat and Kingu, the dragons of chaos, and thereby gained supreme power. Acknowledged as the creator of the universe and of humankind, the god of light and life, and the ruler of destinies, he rose to such eminence that he claimed 50 titles. Eventually, he was called simply Bel, meaning "Lord."
