Nusku


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god of fire and light

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ina asika in reference to Nusku (KAR 58:30 = UFBG Nusku 3).
nuru ([.sup.d]ZALAG) ana bit marsi ina erebika, "When you enter into the sick man's house, 0 Lamp," which is in reference to Nusku (UFBG Nusku 2:5, Mayer 1976: 482; cf.
Mesopotamian scholarship in Hattusa and the Sammeltafel KUB 4.53
She first argues that we should not lament the perceived incompatibility between the text on the pedestal's base (associated with Nusku) and the imagery (associated with Nabu through a reading of the depicted symbol as a stylus and tablet), because we should not approach the text as explaining the image.
The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria
The morning having arrived, figurines would have been manufactured and presented to Nusku, the god of fire and light.
This is followed by Maqlu 1.73-121, which accompanies the lighting of a reed torch, and by Maqlu I.122-34 ("Nusku, exalted progeny of Anu") and 135-43 ("I will raise the torch"), which celebrates the waving about of this torch by the patient.
Mesopotamian Witchcraft: Toward a History and Understanding of Babylonian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature
While Marduk, Sin, Nergal, Ninurta, and Nusku resided in small sanctuaries (ekurratu) in Uruk and its vicinity, Istar, Nanaya, and Beltu-sa-Res lived in various chapels of the Eanna temple itself.
The Pantheon of Uruk during the Neo-Babylonian Period
Certainly, as Parpola tells us, Sin is characterized as mustalu "thoughtful, deliberative," but so, according to Tallqvist, are Assur, Enlil, Gilgamesh, Marduk, Nusku, Samas, Ninsubur and Gula!
ASSYRIAN PROPHECIES, THE ASSYRIAN TREE, AND THE MESOPOTAMIAN ORIGINS OF JEWISH MONOTHEISM, GREEK PHILOSOPHY, CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY, GNOSTICISM, AND MUCH MORE
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