Kingu

Kingu is a Babylonian god who plays an important role in the Enuma Eliš , the Babylonian creation myth.

His mother Tiamat takes him as husband after the death of Abzu . She wants to raise him to supreme god and gives him the tablets of fate , which he wears around his chest. However, Marduk prevents this plan and kills Kingu. Marduk receives the fate plates, which from then on he wears tied around his chest. The first human is created from clay and the blood of the Kingu.

Remarks

1. ↑ Kratzmeier, Peter, Nell, Werner .: Kingu in: Der Brockhaus, Mythologie: the world of gods, heroes and myths . Wissenmedia, Gütersloh 2010, ISBN 978-3-7653-3471-9 .

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 .