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Shamash

noun
1.
The chief sun god; drives away winter and storms and brightens the earth with greenery; drives away evil and brings justice and compassion.





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"Shamash" Quotes from Famous Books



... with that of the Book of Genesis. The God Bel is determined to destroy mankind, and Hasisadra receives directions from Ea to build a ship, and take into it provisions and goods and slaves and beasts of the field. The ship is covered with bitumen. The flood is sent by Shamash (the sun-god). Hasisadra enters the ship and shuts the door. So dreadful is the tempest that the gods in affright ascend for protection to the heaven of Anu. Six days the storm lasts. On the seventh conies calm. Hasisadra opens a window and sees the mountain of Nizir, sends ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner


Words linked to "Shamash" :   Semitic deity, Assyria, Babylon


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