Asakku
Asakku is considered to be the personification of pain and illness, especially "head fever ". In the Gilgamesh epic , Asakku is mentioned as one of the 13 storm winds sent by the sun god Šamaš . It is comparable to the Sumerian Asag .
See also
literature
- Helmut Freydank u. a .: Lexicon of the Old Orient. Egypt * India * China * Western Asia. VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-928127-40-3 .
- Brigitte Groneberg : The gods of the Mesopotamia. Cults, myths, epics. Artemis & Winkler, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7608-2306-8 .