Lugalirra
Lugalirra formed a pair with Meslamtaea. Due to the connection between Nergal and these two gods, who could be regarded as a pair of twins, his own name could be represented by the logogram dMAŠ.TAB.BA and its variant dMAŠ.MAŠ, both of them originally meaning "(divine) twins".
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 2000 BCE
- Attested period
- -2000 – -2000
- Historical notes
- Attested in a hymn from the reign of Ibbi-Sin.
Relationships
- allied with
- Nergal, Meslamtaea, Meslamtaea
- co occurs with
- Igišta, Zhong Kui, Đầu Trâu, Mặt Ngựa, Alexiares, Anicetus, Gozu Tennō, Kushiel, Zabaniyya, Shapash, Yarikh, Gaṯaru, Gašru, Bēl-gašer, Alammuš, Šarur, Šargaz, Ninnisig, Erragal, Mamitu, Zi-ĝara, Alamu, Šarrabu, Sebitti, Erra, Ninurta, Ningublaga, Chenghuangshen, Meng Po, Heibai Wuchang, Shullat, Hanish, Nanshe, Ningal, Enlil, Ninshubur
- sibling of
- Meslamtaea
- serves
- Nergal
- consort of
- Ku'annesi
Mentioned by
- Zi-mingi
- Almu
- Birdu
- Sin
- Erra
- Ninurta
- Ningublaga
- Chenghuangshen
- Meng Po
- Heibai Wuchang
- Shullat
- Hanish
- Nanshe
- Ningal
- Enlil
- Ninshubur
and 5 more
Sources
Source passages
“As attested for the first time in a hymn from the reign of Ibbi-Sin, he formed a pair with Lugalirra. Due to the connection between Nergal and these two gods, who could be regarded as a pair of twins, his own name could be represented by the logogram dMAŠ.TAB.BA and its variant dMAŠ.MAŠ, both of them originally meaning "(divine) twins"”
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“There is evidence that in Mesopotamia a god analogous to Ugaritic Gaṯaru, Gašru (dgaš-ru) was understood as analogous to Lugalirra or Erra. The equation is based on the similar meaning of Lugalirra's name: the element ir is treated as the Sumerian translation of gašru in lexical texts.”
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