Ishum (Išum; possibly the masculine form of Akkadian išātum, "fire"[1]) was a Mesopotamian god of Akkadian origin. He is best attested as a divine night watchman, tasked with protecting houses at night, but he was also associated with various underworld deities, especially Nergal (or Erra) and Shubula. He was associated with fire, but was not exclusively a fire god unlike Gibil. While he was not considered to be one of the major gods, he was commonly worshiped and appears in many theophoric names. In bilingual texts he could be associated with Sumerian Hendursaga, but this equation is only attested for the first time in the Old Babylonian period, and the rationale behind it remains uncertain. Both of those gods could be regarded as the husband of the goddess Ninmug, though she was primarily associated with Ishum and only secondarily with Hendursaga.
Ishum (Išum; possibly the masculine form of Akkadian išātum, "fire") was a Mesopotamian god of Akkadian origin. He is best attested as a divine night...
personification of truth, dream deities such as Mamu, as well as the god Ishum. Utu's name could be used to write the names of many foreign solar deities...
latter describes his rampages and efforts of his sukkal (attendant deity) Ishum to stop them. He also appears in a number of other, less well preserved...
or a myth apparently confusing her with Sudaĝ in the role of mother of Ishum. In Syrian cities such as Mari, Emar and Ugarit, Ninlil was closely associated...
Babylonian records Gibil, skilled god of fire and smithing in Sumerian records Ishum, god of fire who was the brother of the sun god Shamash, and an attendant...
remains uncertain, and Adab. From the Old Babylonian period onward, the god Ishum (and by extension his counterpart Hendursaga) could be regarded as her husband...
Oxford University Press. pp. 70, 152–155. ISBN 9780199278411. "Erra and Ishum - www.GatewaysToBabylon.com". www.gatewaystobabylon.com. Retrieved 2022-02-18...
Enki's messenger in the myths of Enki and Ninhursag and Inanna and Enki. IshumIshum was a popular, but not very prominent god, who was worshipped from the...
In a number of god lists, he was equated with the similar Akkadian god Ishum. The etymology of the name Hendursaga is uncertain, though it is possible...
that Ishtar's heart has calmed down. A myth about the childhood of the god Ishum, viewed as a son of Shamash, describes Ishtar seemingly temporarily taking...
are also mentioned in the Epic of Erra (aka 'Song of Erra', or 'Erra and Ishum'); here again they are referenced as paradu-Fish. In this text is described...
medical text alongside "hand of Nanaya" and "hand of Kanisurra." Ishum Nergal Ishum replaced Ugur, the original sukkal of Nergal, after the Old Babylonian...
Anzu, The Descent of Ishtar, Gilgamesh, The Epic of Creation, Erra and Ishum. Collected into one volume, this work has made the Babylonian corpus accessible...
an analogous role attested for Adad's wife Shala, Shamash's wife Aya, Ishum's wife Ninmug or Inanna's attendant Ninshubur. Like Enki, Damgalnuna could...
goats." It has also been proposed that ‘Iṯum corresponded to Mesopotamian Ishum. Šamnu šmn The name of the deity Šamnu is identical with a word referring...
ISBN 978-1-4426-5706-9. George, Andrew R. (2013). "The Poem of Erra and Ishum: A Babylonian Poet's View of War" (PDF). Warfare and Poetry in the Middle...
the crown prince if not for the timely intervention of Nergal's vizier, Ishum, who convinced Nergal to spare Kumma. Nergal then asked why he insulted...
including Nergal, Laṣ, Bēl-ṣarbi, the pair Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea, Šubula, Ishum, Mammitum, Ištaran and Tishpak. A theophoric name invoking Ningublaga, Ur-Ningublaga...
document. Ninshubur herself appears as the sukkal of Nergal instead of Ugur or Ishum (both of them male) in a Sumerian text dated to the Old Babylonian period...
preserved) from An = Anum (tablet VI, line 24), who might be a daughter of Ishum, and a gloss in a single text indicates the NIN sign in her name should...
that a reference to these two passages can be found in the myth Erra and Ishum (tablet IV, lines 118–120), where the first of the eponymous gods describes...
ISBN 0-19-283589-0. OCLC 47780554. George, Andrew R. (2013). "The Poem of Erra and Ishum: A Babylonian Poet's View of War". Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East...
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