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ERESHKIGEL

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Overview

ERESHKIGEL (noun)
  The noun ERESHKIGEL has 1 sense:

1. goddess of death and consort of Nergalplay

  Familiarity information: ERESHKIGEL used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ERESHKIGEL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Goddess of death and consort of Nergal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Eresh-kigal; Ereshkigal; Ereshkigel

Instance hypernyms:

Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)

Domain region:

Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq)

Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)


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