Nergal
Nergal is the god of Mesopotamian underworld. In Sumerian, the name means "Master of the Great City," that is to say the underworld. It seems it is a deity Akkadian , Sumerian because at that time, the goddess of the underworld is Ereshkigal. It was only late in the second half of the third millennium that is associated with Nergal, becoming her husband, as described in the myth of Nergal and Ereshkigal. They had a son Ninazu. Nergal is himself the son of Enlil. It is also related to another deity infernal, Erra.
As a deity infernal, Nergal has a destructive aspect, and it is sometimes regarded as the instigator of epidemics.
Its main temple is located Kuth , like other infernal deities of Lower Mesopotamia.
Nergal is also the pseudonym of Adam Michael Darski , singer and guitarist of death metal Polish Behemoth.
Bibliography
- (De) Josef Bllenrcher, Gebet und Hymnen to Nergal, A. Press, Leipzig, 1904, 43 p.
- (De) Manfred Hutter, Altorientalische Vorstellungen von der Unterwelt: Literar-und berlegungen zu religionsgeschichtliche Nergal und Ereskigal, Universittsverlag, Fribourg (Switzerland); Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gttingen, 1985, 187 p.
- (De) Egbert von Weiher, Der Gott Nergal babylonische, Butzon u. Berck, Kevelaer; Neukirchener Verl. d. Erziehungsvereins, Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1971, 13 8 p. ( ISBN 3-7666-8651-8 ) (view review)
- (It) Giovanni Pettinato, Nergal Erekigal ed: it assiro poema degli inferi-babilonese, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 2000, 154 p.
- (It) Giovanni Pettinato (ed.), I miti degli inferi-assiro babilonesi, Paideia, Brescia, 2003, 182 p. ( ISBN 88-394-0672-7 )
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