Cure (demon)
In Sumerian mythology , Kur is a monstrous demon .
Kur personifies the realm of the dead , hell , the course of the river of the dead (see also Styx ) and the empty space without hope between Abzu , the primeval lake or primeval soup and Ma , the earth.
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