Tišpak
Tišpak (Tischpak) ( Sumerian DINGIR Tišpak UR.SAG.-i-li) was originally the Sumerian snake god Ninazu and thus son of Ereškigal and Enki in the Sumerian religion . After the mythological merging with Ninazu, Tišpak was elevated to the city god of Ešnunna . He was a weather god, Thorkild Jacobsen wants to bring him in connection with the Hurrian Teššup . The god type text describes him as the god who kicks the dragon with his two feet ( ina killatēšu bašma kabis šumšu (MU.BI) d Tišpak).
Tišpak's symbolic animal was the dragon Mušḫuššu , the "terrible snake". The struggle of Tišpak against Mušḫušḫu is described in a text from the library of Aššurbanipal (CT 13.33-34), which Wiggerman wants to date to the Old Akkadian period.
genealogy
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Nintu ( Ereškigal ) |
Enki god of Apsu |
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Ninazu ( Tišpak ) |
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Ningišzida ( Nirah ) |
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Marduk (son) |
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Nabu (son) |
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literature
- Dietz-Otto Edzard among others: Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie . Volume 8: Meek - Mythology . de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-11-014809-9 , pp. 457-458
- Theodore J. Lewis 1996. CT 13.33-34 and Ezekiel 32: Lion-Dragon Myths. Journal of the American Oriental Society 116/1, 28-47. JSTOR 606370
- FAM Wiggermann 1989. Tišpak, his Seal, and the Dragon mušḫušḫu . In: O. Haex et al. (Ed.), To the Euphrates and Beyond: Archaeological Studies in Honor of Maurits N. van Loon.
Individual evidence
- ^ Thorkild Jacobsen: The Chief God of Eshnunna. In: Henri Frankfort et al. (Eds.): Tel Asmar and Khafaje. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1932, pp. 55-59
- ↑ F. Kicher 1953, The Babylonian God Type Text, MIO 1, 80, vi 3-4.
- ^ Theodore J. Lewis 1996. CT 13.33-34 and Ezekiel 32: Lion-Dragon Myths. Journal of the American Oriental Society 116/1, 28
- ^ Theodore J. Lewis 1996. CT 13.33-34 and Ezekiel 32: Lion-Dragon Myths. Journal of the American Oriental Society 116/1, Jan.