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Nikkal (logographically dNIN.GAL,
alphabetically 𐎐𐎋𐎍 nkl) or
Nikkal-wa-Ib (nkl wib) was a
goddess worshiped in
various areas of the
ancient Near East...
- of
these tablets,
which is
nearly complete,
contains the
Hurrian Hymn to
Nikkal (also
known as the
Hurrian cult hymn or "a zaluzi-prayer to the gods," or...
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narrative compositions. He is the main
character in The
Marriage of
Nikkal and Yarikh, a myth
possibly based on an
earlier Hurrian composition. The...
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Ningal (Sumerian: "Great Queen";
Akkadian Nikkal) was a
Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of the moon god, Nanna/Sin. She was
particularly closely...
- Arnuwanda's
parents are unknown.
Because both
Arnuwanda and his wife,
Queen Ašmu-
Nikkal, are
described on
their respective seals as the
children of Tudḫaliya II...
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almost always appears alongside Nikkal. In
early scholarship it was ****umed that Umbu was an
appellative referring to
Nikkal,
analogous to the
second element...
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preserved many of its features,
rhythms and instruments. The "Hurrian Hymn to
Nikkal",
found on clay
tablets in the
ancient Syrian city of Ugarit, is the oldest...
- Milcom. Mot or Maweth, god of
death (not
worshiped or
given offerings)
Nikkal-wa-Ib,
goddess of
orchards and
fruit Pidray,
goddess of
light and lightning...
- Mot
waShar "Death-and-Prince" (or
possibly "Death-and-Destruction'),
Nikkal-and-Ib,
which is in
origin the name of the
Sumerian goddess Ningal combined...
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joined by Arsay.
Pidray alone is also
mentioned in the myth
Marriage of
Nikkal and Yarikh. The
oldest spelling of Pidray's name.
attested in an Old Babylonian...
