Tutu (god)

Tutu is a very old Sumerian deity that dates back to the 4th millennium BC. Was worshiped by the Sumerians. In the Sumerian king list , the deified ruler Ubar-Tutu ruled for 18,600 years before the flood in Šuruppak .

Tutu was also the city ​​god of the city ​​of Borsippa belonging to Babylon . In the course of Babylonian history he was equated more and more with the city god of Babylon, Marduk , and was finally absorbed in him. His temple in Borsippa was called Ezida . Instead of Tutu, Marduk's son Nabu became Borsippa's new city god. When the Codex Hammurapi was written, Tutu was still Borsippa's city god and was mentioned in the Codex.

See also

• Epic of Gilgamesh

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 .

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ In the mythology of the Sumerians, 1 god day was equated to an earthly year . When divided by the sexagesimal value 360, 18,600 years result in a reign of 51 years and 8 months; see. on the role of Ubar tutu also Stefan Maul: Das Gilgamesch-Epos , CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52870-8 , p. 184.