" Along these lines, some scholars maintain that later use of the symbol arose from Babylonian mythology in which the juxtaposition of Sin ( moon god, father of time ) and Shamash ( supreme ruling sun god, judge of heaven and earth ) was a metaphor for the cosmic powers given to the Babylonian king to rule.

Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning " the son of Enlil ", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.

Aplu, meaning the son of, was a title given to the god Nergal, who was linked to the Babylonian god of the sun Shamash.

A carving at the top of the stele portrays Hammurabi receiving the laws from the god Shamash or possibly Marduk, and the preface states that Hammurabi was chosen by the gods of his people to bring the laws to them.

In the ancient Near East, each city had a local patron deity, such as Shamash at Larsa or Sin at Ur.

Eastern city wall and Shamash Gate.

Named for the Sun god Shamash, it opens to the road to Arbil.

There is an outward projection of the city wall, though not as pronounced as at the Shamash Gate.

Mesopotamian Shamash plays an important role during the Bronze Age, and " my Sun " is eventually used as an address to royalty.

An ancient Aramaic inscription, found at Dier Alla, identifies Balaam as a prophet of Shamash, a semitic sun-god, and consequently, it could well be the case that the unidentified Baal of Peor is Shamash.

Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the Bull and offer its heart to the sun-god Shamash.

Some of the most significant of these deities were Anu, Ea, Enlil, Ishtar ( Astarte ), Ashur, Shamash, Tammuz, Adad / Hadad, Sin ( Nanna ), Dagan, Ninurta, Nisroch, Nergal, Tiamat, Bel and Marduk.

These people exist today as the modern Assyrians who are wholly Eastern Rite Christian but retain a distinct Mesopotamian language, Neo Aramaic ( which descends from the Aramaic first spoken in Mesopotamia in 1200 BCE and still retains hundreds of Akkadian loan words ) and identity and the naming of children with ancient names such as Ashur, Shamash, Semiramis, Lamassu, Ninus, Lilitu / Lilith, Sargon, Hadad etc.

Similarly the Sumerian moon god Nanna became the Akkadian Sîn whilst the Sumerian sun god Utu became the Akkadian Shamash.

Assyrians to this day still use the names of ancient Mesopotamian gods and rulers as both first and last names ; Ashur, Hadad, Shamash, Lilitu / Lilith, Sennacherib, Sin ( Shinu ), Sargon, Semiramis, Ishtar and Lamassu for example are still common names, and some months in the Assyrian calendar are named after ancient gods such as Tammuz, and all periods are listed as being blessed by ancient gods.

Gilgamesh visits his mother, the goddess Ninsun, who seeks the support and protection of the sun-god Shamash for their adventure.

The god Shamash sends 13 winds to bind Humbaba, and he is captured.

Without any divine assistance, Enkidu and Gilgamesh attack and slay it, and offer up its heart to Shamash.

Despite the protestations of Shamash, Enkidu is marked for death.

Shamash reminds Enkidu of how Shamhat fed and clothed him, and introduced him to Gilgamesh.

Shamash tells him that Gilgamesh will bestow great honors upon him at his funeral, and will wander into the wild consumed with grief.

Enlil and Suen don ’ t reply but Ea and Shamash decide to help.

# Gilgamesh argues with Shamash about the futility of his quest.

In other texts Adad / Ishkur is sometimes son of the moon god Nanna / Sin by Ningal and brother of Utu / Shamash and Inana / Ishtar.

Runyon's stories also employ occasional rhyming slang, similar to the cockney variety but native to New York ( e. g.: " Miss Missouri Martin makes the following crack one night to her: ' Well, I do not see any Simple Simon on your lean and linger.

The structural change caused by the implantation produces a surface compression in the steel, which prevents crack propagation and thus makes the material more resistant to fracture.

Sonic crack from the pellet as it moves with supersonic speed also makes the shot louder sometimes making it possible to be mistaken for firearm discharge and drawing unwanted attention.

A DVD is much better able to take repeated viewings than VHS tape, which can crack or break, which makes DVDs a better format from a rental store's perspective.

Wabi sabi can change our perception of the world to the extent that a chip or crack in a vase makes it more interesting and gives the object greater meditative value.

The government will occasionally crack down in the tabloids by closing them and changing their staff, but the commercial pressures on the tabloids to gather readers and the fact that many enjoy considerable political protection makes the effectiveness of these actions limited.

There's a good deal of the court-lady about her too, for she has a crack with everybody, and makes a joke and a mock of them all.

The block is shaped so that pulling on the tape makes it cam against the crack, gripping the rock tighter.

* A quirt is a short, flexible piece of thickly braided leather with two wide pieces of leather at the end, which makes a loud crack when it strikes an animal or object.

Even if an attacker recognizes the communication as interesting, cover makes traffic analysis more difficult since he must crack the cover before he can find out to whom it is addressed.

You know when a bullet passes over you, the cracking sound it makes, and that bullet had an absolute crack to it.

The repeated headline " Sixty Lost in Underground Horror ", which makes Doris think of " graveyards, sewers, and flabby-pale, noisome things swarming suddenly out of the tubes themselves, wrapping their arms ( tentacles, maybe ) around the hapless commuters on the platforms, dragging them away to darkness ," evokes the painting " some unknown catacomb through a crack in the floor of the Boston Street subway and attacking a crowd of people on the platform " from Lovecraft's story, " Pickman's Model ".

Described as Jackass on crack, the film is about " wicked nasty stunts such as liposuction drinking games, beer enema shotguns, things that shouldn't be done with male genitalia, and more ...." Former drug smuggler Howard Marks makes an appearance as Satan.

This makes them less likely to crack and peel from aging and wear, but more susceptible to cracking from thermal stress.

Aesthetically, wooden bats are generally agreed to be superior to metal bats, both because of their more traditional appearance and because a ball hit with a wooden bat makes a loud " crack " sound, while metal alloy bats have a " ping " sound.

As she makes her way back, the log starts to crack.

This way of calculating the hash makes it exponentially easier to crack, as the attacker need to brute force 7 characters twice instead of 14 characters.

Borosilicate glass is considered more forgiving to work with, as its lower COE makes it less apt to crack during flameworking than soda-lime glass.

Transport watchdogs plan to crack down on the young male van driver who looms in your rearview mirror, comes within feet of your bumper and usually makes obscene gestures until he forces his way past.

The elder of the tribe puts a curse on the men which, one by one, strikes them down with a gruesome condition that makes their bodies incredibly delicate ; a mote of dust can slice their skin open, the soles of their feet crack when they stand.

Nas makes reference to the "' 86 crack blitz " and discusses his own significance: " This thug life you claimed it, I make millions from entertainment / Now back in the hood, certain cats they wanna kill me / They ice-grill me, but on the low, niggas feel me.

The fall also caused a crack in the coliseum floor, but it was repaired and no damage was found to have been done to the piping system that makes ice for the coliseum floor.

As he makes his way to the top of the house, he comes across a crack in the wall and, squeezing through it, finds himself under the attic's floorboards.

The presence of graphite flakes makes the Grey Iron easily machinable as they tend to crack easily across the graphite flakes. Grey iron also has very good damping capacity and hence it is mostly used as the base for machine tool mountings.