| LC control no. | no2019107326 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Aššur (Assyrian deity) |
| Variant(s) | Ashur (Assyrian deity) آشور (Assyrian deity) Ашшур (Assyrian deity) Ashshur (Assyrian deity) |
| Associated country | Assyria |
| Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Vera Chamaza, Galo W. Die Omnipotenz Aššurs, 2002. Driel, G. van. The cult of Aššur, 1969. Greenwood, Kyle R. Then Aššur will hear his prayers, 2008, via ProQuest, viewed July 22, 2019: leaf 2 (the deity Aššur) Encyclopædia Britannica online, July 22, 2019 (Ashur, Mesopotamian deity; Ashur, in Mesopotamian religion, city god of Ashur and national god of Assyria. In the beginning he was perhaps only a local deity of the city that shared his name. From about 1800 BC onward, however, there appear to have been strong tendencies to identify him with the Sumerian Enlil (Akkadian: Bel), while under the Assyrian king Sargon II (reigned 721-705 BC), there were tendencies to identify Ashur with Anshar, the father of An (Akkadian: Anu) in the creation myth. The Assyrians believed that he granted rule over Assyria and supported Assyrian arms against enemies; detailed written reports from the Assyrian kings about their campaigns were even submitted to him. He appears a mere personification of the interests of Assyria as a political entity, with little character of his own) <https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ashur-Mesopotamian-deity> Wikipedia, July 22, 2019: Ashur (god) (Ashur (also, Assur, Aššur) is an East Semitic god, and the head of the Assyrian pantheon in Mesopotamian religion; Aššur was a deified form of the city of Assur, which dates from the mid 3rd millennium BC and was the capital of the Old Assyrian kingdom; he later came to be regarded as the Assyrian equivalent of Enlil, the chief god of Nippur, which was the most important god of the southern pantheon from the early 3rd millennium BC until Hammurabi founded an empire based in Babylon in the mid-18th century BC, after which Marduk replaced Enlil as the chief god in the south. In the north, Ashur absorbed Enlil's wife Ninlil (as the Assyrian goddess Mullissu) and his sons Ninurta and Zababa--this process began around the 14th century BC and continued down to the 7th century) Arabic page (آشور = Āshūr) Russian page (Ашшур = Ashshur) Ancient history encyclopedia, via WWW, July 22, 2019 (Assur (also Ashur, Anshar) is the god of the Assyrians who was elevated from a local deity of the city of Ashur to the supreme god of the Assyrian pantheon; Assur's family and history are modeled on the Sumerian Anu and Enlil and the Babylonian Marduk; his power and attributes mirror Anu's, Enlil's, and Marduk's as do details of his family: Assur's wife is Ninlil (Enlil's wife) and his son is Nabu (Marduk's son). Assur had no actual history of his own, such as those created for Sumerian and Babylonian gods but borrowed from these other myths to create a supreme deity whose worship, at its height, was almost monotheistic) <https://www.ancient.eu/assur/> Iraq, spring, 1983, via JSTOR, viewed July 22, 2019: page 82 (The god Aššur; state god of Assyria; Assyrian god without other cult centres, except when Assyrians established them) <https://www.jstor.org/stable/4200181> The Oxford classical dictionary, 1996 (Assyria 1. Land of the patron god Aššur) |
| Invalid LCCN | sh2004001937 |
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