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Kur is almost identical with " Ki-gal ", " Great Land " which is the Underworld ( thus the ruler of the Underworld is Ereshkigal " Goddess of The Great Land ".

In later Babylonian myth Kur is possibly an Anunnaki, brother of Ereshkigal, Enki, and Enlil.

In the Enuma Elish in Akkadian tablets from the first millennium BC, Kur is part of the retinue of Tiamat, and seems to be a snakelike dragon.

In one story the slaying of the great serpent Kur results in the flooding of the earth.

A first millennium BC cylinder seal shows a fire-spitting winged dragon — a nude woman between its wings — pulling the chariot of the god who subdued it, another depicts a god riding a dragon, a third a goddess.