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Nergal

(#72639958)

Inflicted death is necessary for peace.

Familiar

False Eye Depin

Energy: 49/50

Personal Style

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Skin

Scene

Physical Attributes

Battle Stats

Measurements

Length

5.97 m

Wingspan

8.32 m

Weight

546.38 kg

Genetics

Garnet
Pinstripe

Tomato
Noxtide

Garnet
Capsule

Hatchday

Sep 27, 2021
(2 years)

Breed

Adult
Bogsneak

Eye Type

Plague
Primal

Level 1 Bogsneak

EXP: 0 / 245

STR

AGI

DEF

QCK

INT

VIT

MND

Lineage

Parents

none

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none

Biography

NATURALLY HATCHED PRIMAL

I hatched a Primal on my birthday!!! It's Plague which is one I needed but at the same time it's a lil mmm...I'll grow to love her I think. I will be scattering her because the Sapphire tert is letting me down though. Something suitably plague would be great! Named after an ancient Mesopotamian deity who's other names included Meslamtaea, Irra and Erra.

UPDATE: Welp…that’s a 5 off triple. All reds. Plaguebringer’s so nice to me holy cow ;v;

THE EPIC OF ERRA
O valiant Erra, you grasp heaven’s halter, you master the entire world, you rule the people!
You roil the very ocean, master even the mountain, you herd mankind, you drive the livestock!
Heaven’s at your disposal, Hell’s in your hands, you have charge of Babylon, give orders to Esangil:
You’re master of all the cosmic powers, even the gods are in terror of you…is there warfare without you?

~*~

Pg. 54

ORIGINAL LOOK: NOCTURNE: Triple Basic

COMPLETED: 1st of October 2021 (Pinstripe brewed)

~*~

PLAGUE-Y SCATTER JOURNEY
START: Gold/Cerise/Sapphire
Coral/Mist/Stone
Raspberry/Charcoal/Pink
Raspberry/Amber/Heather
Driftwood/Jade/Maroon
Jungle/Blackberry/Eldritch
Cyan/Charcoal/Goldenrod
Gloom/Orchid/Fire
White/Cobalt/Purple
Spearmint/Sand/Grapefruit
Raspberry/Peacock/Honeydew
FINISH: Garnet/Tomato/Garnet

Awesome Art! by TheAlmightySei

Nergal, Nirgal, or Nirgali (Sumerian: dKIŠ.UNU or dGÌR-UNUG-GAL𒀭𒄊𒀕𒃲; Hebrew: נֵרְגַל‎, Modern: Nergal, Tiberian: Nērḡál; Aramaic: ܢܸܪܓܲܠ; Latin: Nirgal) was a deity who was worshipped throughout ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia) with the main seat of his worship at Cuthah represented by the mound of Tell-Ibrahim. He was also known as Meslamtaea, Erra and Irra.

Nergal had a multitude of functions in the religion of ancient Mesopotamia and its neighbors. God lists attest that he had one of the highest numbers of epithets out of all documented deities, with the An-Anum list alone providing around a hundred. He was especially closely related to war, disease and the underworld, and according to Frans Wiggermann can be understood as "god of inflicted death." However, Nergal's warlike nature also made him a god defending the realm, whose presence was regarded as necessary for peace - in this role he was known under the title Lugal-Silimma ("The lord of peace"). He was invoked in apotropaic rituals as well, as his fearsome reputation was believed to keep houses safe from evil.

A few of Nergal's titles point at occasional association with vegetation and agriculture, namely Lugal-asal, "lord (of the) poplar"; Lugal-gišimmar, "Lord (of the) date palm" (also a title of Ninurta); Lugal-šinig, "Lord (of the) tamarisk"; Lugal-zulumma, "Lord (of the) dates."

The symbols most commonly associated with Nergal includes bulls, wild oxen, lions, lion-headed maces and scimitars. Some depictions on cylinder seals depict him in a flat cap associated with underworld deities. War standards could serve as a symbolic depictions of Nergal too, and the Assyrians often carries such objects representing him (as well as Adad) into battle.

Nergal was conflated with many other similar gods, and his name was sometimes used as an ideographic way to write names of such deities. Erra, originally a distinct figure, had been fully equated with Nergal after the Old Babylonian period, and subsequently his name appears only in literary and theological contexts (myths, god lists etc.), often with the same text using both names interchangeably.

The worship of Nergal does not appear to have spread as widely as that of Ninurta, but in the late Babylonian and early Persian period, syncretism seems to have fused the two divinities, which were invoked together as if they were identical. Hymns and votive and other inscriptions of Babylonian and Assyrian rulers frequently invoke him, but we do not learn of many temples to him outside of Cuthah. The Assyrian king Sennacherib speaks of one at Tarbisu to the north of the Assyrian capital of Nineveh, but significantly, although Nebuchadnezzar II (606–586 BC), the great temple-builder of the neo-Babylonian monarchy, alludes to his operations at Meslam in Cuthah, he makes no mention of a sanctuary to Nergal in Babylon. Local associations with his original seat—Kutha—and the conception formed of him as a god of the dead acted in making him feared rather than actively worshipped.

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