Lugala'abba, the Glossary
Lugala'abba or Lugalabba was a Mesopotamian god associated with the sea, as well as with the underworld.[1]
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41 relations: Abzu, Akkadian language, An = Anum, Ancient Mesopotamian underworld, Asag, É (temple), Šulak, Šurpu, Cuneiform, Dilmun, Dingir, Epic of Gilgamesh, First Sealand dynasty, Gula (goddess), Hesiod, Hubur, Inzak, Ishum, Laguda, Latarak, List of Mesopotamian deities, Louvre, Lugal, Meskilak, NIN (cuneiform), Ninkarrak, Ninmug, Nippur, Oceanus, Old Babylonian Empire, Old Testament, Persian Gulf, Saĝkud, Samsu-iluna, Stephanie Dalley, Styx, Sumerian language, Theogony, Theonym, Ugaritic texts, Wilfred G. Lambert.
Abzu
The Abzu or Apsu (Sumerian: 𒀊𒍪; Akkadian: 𒀊𒍪), also called (Cuneiform:,; Sumerian:; Akkadian: —. Lugala'abba and Abzu are Mesopotamian gods and sea and river gods.
Akkadian language
Akkadian (translit)John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.
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An = Anum
An.
Ancient Mesopotamian underworld
The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erṣetu), was the lowermost part of the ancient near eastern cosmos, roughly parallel to the region known as Tartarus from early Greek cosmology.
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Asag
In the Sumerian mythological poem Lugal-e, Asag or Azag (Sumerian: Akkadian: asakku), is a monstrous demon, so hideous that his presence alone makes fish boil alive in the rivers.
É (temple)
É (Cuneiform) is the Sumerian word or symbol for house or temple.
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Šulak
In the Babylonian magico-medical tradition, Šulak is the lurker of the bathroom or the demon of the privy.
Šurpu
The ancient Mesopotamian incantation series Šurpu begins enūma nēpešē ša šur-pu tušu, “when you perform the rituals for (the series) ‘Burning,’” and was probably compiled in the middle Babylonian period, ca.
Cuneiform
Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East.
Dilmun
Dilmun, or Telmun, (Sumerian:,Transliteration: Similar text: later 𒉌𒌇(𒆠), NI.TUKki.
Dingir
Dingir ⟨⟩, usually transliterated DIĜIR, is a Sumerian word for 'god' or 'goddess'.
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia.
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First Sealand dynasty
The First Sealand dynasty (URU.KÙKIWhere ŠEŠ-ḪA of King List A and ŠEŠ-KÙ-KI of King List B are read as URU.KÙ.KI), or the 2nd Dynasty of Babylon (although it was independent of Amorite-ruled Babylon), very speculatively c. 1732–1460 BC (short chronology), is an enigmatic series of kings attested to primarily in laconic references in the king lists A and B, and as contemporaries recorded on the Assyrian Synchronistic king list A.117.
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Gula (goddess)
Gula (Sumerian: "the great") was a Mesopotamian goddess of medicine, portrayed as a divine physician and midwife.
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Hesiod
Hesiod (or; Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
Hubur
Hubur (Hu-bur) is a Sumerian term meaning "river", "watercourse" or "netherworld." It is usually the "river of the netherworld".
Inzak
Inzak (also Enzag, Enzak, Anzak; in older publications Enshag) was the main god of the pantheon of Dilmun. Lugala'abba and Inzak are Mesopotamian gods.
Ishum
Ishum (Išum; possibly the masculine form of Akkadian išātum, "fire") was a Mesopotamian god of Akkadian origin. Lugala'abba and Ishum are Mesopotamian gods.
Laguda
Laguda (dla-gu-da, rarely dla-gù-dé) was a Mesopotamian god most likely associated with the Persian Gulf. Lugala'abba and Laguda are Mesopotamian gods and sea and river gods.
Latarak
Latarak (Lātarāk) was a Mesopotamian god. Lugala'abba and Latarak are Mesopotamian gods.
List of Mesopotamian deities
Deities in ancient Mesopotamia were almost exclusively anthropomorphic.
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Louvre
The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.
Lugal
(Sumerian) is the Sumerian term for "king, ruler".
Meskilak
Meskilak or Mesikila was one of the two main deities worshiped in Dilmun.
NIN (cuneiform)
The Sumerian word NIN (𒎏), later borrowed into Akkadian, was used to denote a queen or a priestess, and is often translated as "lady".
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Ninkarrak
Ninkarrak (𒀭𒊩𒌆𒋼𒀀𒊏𒀝, dnin-kar-ra-ak) was a goddess of medicine worshiped chiefly in northern Mesopotamia and Syria.
Ninmug
Ninmug or Ninmuga was a Mesopotamian goddess.
Nippur
Nippur (Sumerian: Nibru, often logographically recorded as, EN.LÍLKI, "Enlil City;"I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, The Cambridge Ancient History: Prolegomena & Prehistory: Vol. 1, Part 1, Cambridge University Press, 1970 Akkadian: Nibbur) was an ancient Sumerian city.
Oceanus
In Greek mythology, Oceanus (Ὠκεανός, also Ὠγενός, Ὤγενος, or Ὠγήν) was a Titan son of Uranus and Gaia, the husband of his sister the Titan Tethys, and the father of the river gods and the Oceanids, as well as being the great river which encircled the entire world. Lugala'abba and Oceanus are sea and river gods.
Old Babylonian Empire
The Old Babylonian Empire, or First Babylonian Empire, is dated to, and comes after the end of Sumerian power with the destruction of the Third Dynasty of Ur, and the subsequent Isin-Larsa period.
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Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.
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Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.
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Saĝkud
Saĝkud was a Mesopotamian god who might have been regarded as a divine tax collector or as a warrior deity. Lugala'abba and Saĝkud are Mesopotamian gods.
Samsu-iluna
Samsu-iluna (Amorite: Shamshu-iluna, "The Sun (is) our god") (–1712 BC) was the seventh king of the founding Amorite dynasty of Babylon.
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Stephanie Dalley
Stephanie Mary Dalley FSA (née Page; March 1943) is a British Assyriologist and scholar of the Ancient Near East.
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Styx
In Greek mythology, Styx (Στύξ; lit. "Shuddering"), also called the River Styx, is a goddess and river of the Underworld.
Sumerian language
Sumerian (Also written 𒅴𒄀 eme-gi.ePSD2 entry for emegir.|'native language'|) was the language of ancient Sumer.
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Theogony
The Theogony (i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods") is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed.
Theonym
A theonym (from Greek theos (Θεός), "god", attached to onoma (ὄνομα), "name") is a proper name of a deity.
Ugaritic texts
The Ugaritic texts are a corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in 1928 in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) and Ras Ibn Hani in Syria, and written in Ugaritic, an otherwise unknown Northwest Semitic language.
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Wilfred G. Lambert
Wilfred George Lambert FBA (26 February 1926 – 9 November 2011) was a historian and archaeologist, a specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugala'abba
Also known as Lugalabba.