Asalluḫi
Asalluḫi , the firstborn child of Eridu (Eridu-ga-ke 4 , dumu-sag d En-ki-ga-ke 4 (CT 24 12-17)), Asalluchi, (also Asariluḫi, "conjuring priest " ) is a Sumerian deity .
Asalluḫi is a helper god in ritual incantations . He is the son of Enki . From this he receives instructions for these incantations and he in turn reports to his father about the activities of the demons .
Asalluḫi is the first of the 50 names of Marduk . The following names also begin with the character Asal / Asar. The name Asalluḫi was given to Marduk by Anšar .
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, Epen , Artemis & Winkler, Stuttgart 2004 ISBN 3-7608-2306-8
- Andrea Seri: The fifty names of Marduk "Enūma eliš" . In: Journal of the American Oriental Society , Vol. 126 (2006), Issue 4, pp. 507-519, ISSN 0003-0279 .