Magic desktop backgrounds11/20/2022 ![]() The etymology of the name Marduk is conjectured as derived from amar-Utu ("immortal son of Utu" or "bull calf of the sun god Utu"). The name Marduk was probably pronounced Marutuk. "Marduk" is the Babylonian form of his name. His symbolic animal and servant, whom Marduk once vanquished, is the dragon Mušḫuššu. Marduk is associated with the divine weapon Imhullu. In the city of Babylon, Marduk was worshipped in the temple Esagila. When Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century BC), Marduk 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 BCE. Classical Syriac: ܡܪܘܿܕ݂ܵܟܼ (Mrōḏāḵ), Hebrew: מְרֹדַךְ, Modern: Mərōdaḵ, Tiberian: Merōḏaḵ) was a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon. As in Mar-Utu-k "people of the Sun" also called Shamash or Shem in Hebrew. ![]() Marduk ( Cuneiform: □□□ dAMAR.UTU Sumerian: amar utu.k "calf of the sun solar calf" or possibly "Amar" the name of a race of people known as the Amorites and "Utu" the Sumerian word for the Sun and "k" as in the formation of words ending in -ic which forms a noun or an adjective. This was Marduk's main cult image in Babylon. 9th century BCE depiction of the Statue of Marduk, with his servant dragon Mušḫuššu. ![]()
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