Erra
Erra is a Babylonian deity who is part of the main trio of the First Millennium Babylonian ideology. Nabonassar claimed that he killed the Assyrian and laid waste to his lands by the command of Marduk and Nabu and with the weapons of Erra.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 0
- Historical notes
- Attested in Mesopotamian cuneiform sources.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Nungal, Enmesharra, Kanisurra, Birtum, Simut, Kumarbi, Lugalirra, Amamit, Ereshkigal, Meslamtaea, Aški, Ḫuškia, Taški(m)-Mamma, Lugalirra, Shapash, Yarikh, Gaṯaru, Gašru, Bēl-gašer, Iyarri, Dark Gods, Šanta, Marwainzi, Zappana, Ninurta, Shamash, Sin, Enlil, Tishpak, Lagamal, Allani, Shuwala, Ugur, Ningishzida, Ninazu, Inshushinak, Resheph, Lases, Aštabi, Ishum, Ninlil, Nam-tar, Apollo, Ares, Areia
- syncretized with
- Nergal
- manifests as
- Nergal
Mentioned by
- Išum
- Seven
- Ninurta
- Shamash
- Sin
- Enlil
- Tishpak
- Lagamal
- Allani
- Shuwala
- Ugur
- Ningishzida
- Ninazu
- Inshushinak
- Resheph
- Lases
and 9 more
Sources
Source passages
“He claimed that he killed the Assyrian and laid waste to his lands by the command of Marduk and Nabu and with the weapons of Erra, which was the main trio of the First Millennium Babylonian ideology. In literary texts from the Achaemenid and Seleucid eras, Marduk is said to have commissioned Nabonassar”
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“Erra (god)”
#12235 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“From the Old Babylonian period onward the name Erra, derived from the Semitic root ḥrr, and thus etymologically related to the Akkadian verb erēru, "to scorch", could be applied to Nergal, though it originally referred to a distinct god.”
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“Mamitu could also be regarded as the wife of Erra, who came to be identified with Nergal from the Old Babylonian period onward. In the Epic of Erra, she appears as the wife of the eponymous god, though in this text he is referred both as Erra and Nergal at various points.”
#37105 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“There is evidence that in Mesopotamia a god analogous to Ugaritic Gaṯaru, Gašru (dgaš-ru) was understood as analogous to Lugalirra or Erra.”
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