Milku
deity underworld single tradition · 3
Milku is in a list of deities implored to remove poison.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -1500 – 0
- Historical notes
- Attested in texts from Ugarit.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Milkaštart, Šauška of Nineveh, Adad of Assur, Ishtar of Babylon, Baluhassa, Malkum, Malik, El, Baal, Resheph, Dagan, Shalim, Shapash, Shahar, Kothar-wa-Khasis, Yarikh, Hauron, Tunnanu, Horon, Attapar, Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Yam, ʿAṯtar, Anat, Mot, Allani, Shuwala, Nupatik, Arsay, Ashtart, Ḫabūrītum
- manifested by
- Milkunni
Mentioned by
- El
- Baal
- Resheph
- Dagan
- Shalim
- Shapash
- Shahar
- Kothar-wa-Khasis
- Yarikh
- Hauron
- Tunnanu
- Horon
- Attapar
- Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu
- Yam
- ʿAṯtar
and 9 more
Sources
Source passages
“The deities invoked are Baal, Dagan, Anat (paired with Ashtart), Yarikh, Resheph, Ashtart (on her own), Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Milku, Kothar-wa-Khasis and the pair Shahar and Shalim, all of them invoked from their cult centers, some of them located close to Ugarit (Mount Saphon), other on Crete, in Anatolia (Bibitta) or Upper Mesopotamia (Tuttul, Mari).”
#24092 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“epithet of the god Milku, ‘il gṯr w yqr, "powerful and august god."”
#38853 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“It has been proposed that this name refers to an underworld deity derived from Syrian Milku.”
#39204 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001