Temples were still being dedicated to the national god Ashur in his home city and in Harran during the 4th century AD, indicating an Assyrian identity was still strong.

Set, who had traditionally been the god of foreigners, thus also became associated with foreign oppressors, including the Assyrian and Persian empires.

* Shamash, the Assyrian and Babylonian sun god

The Assyrian king, whilst not being a god himself, was acknowledged as the chief servant of the chief god, Ashur.

However, the last king of Babylon, the Assyrian born Nabonidus, paid little attention to politics, preferring to obsess with worship of the moon god Sin ( mythology ), leaving day to day rule to his son Belshazzar.

The modern Assyrian calendar is dated back to the traditional founding and dedicating of the city of Ashur to the god of the same name.

Adad / Ishkur's consort ( both in early Sumerian and later Assyrian texts ) was Shala, a goddess of grain, who is also sometimes associated with the god Dagan.

Salmānu-ašarēd II, inscribed < sup > md </ sup >- ma-nu -/, meaning “( the god ) Salmānu is foremost ,” was the king of Assyria 1030 – 1019 BC, the 93 < sup > rd </ sup > to appear on the Khorsabad copy of the Assyrian Kinglist, although he has been apparently carelessly omitted altogether on the Nassouhi copy.

Bel became especially used of the Babylonian god Marduk and when found in Assyrian and neo-Babylonian personal names or mentioned in inscriptions in a Mesopotamian context it can usually be taken as referring to Marduk and no other god.

Sargon II ( Akkadian Šarru-ukin " he the god made firm the king ", Arabic: ' reigned 722 – 705 BC ) was an Assyrian king.

The god " Adad " is called on a stele of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser I " the god of Aleppo ".

Another inscription mentions the construction of a temple to the Assyrian god Adad / Hadad in Kahat, a city of Mitanni that must have been occupied as well.

In Assyrian and Babylonian mythology, Pazuzu ( sometimes Fazuzu or Pazuza ) was the king of the demons of the wind, and son of the god Hanbi.

Belphegor originated as the Assyrian Baal-Peor, the Moabitish god to whom the Israelites became attached in Shittim ( Numbers 25: 3 ), which was associated with licentiousness and orgies.

He also proposed a common origin between Osiris and the Assyrian god Assur with whom he said, the sacred tree might be associated.

An interesting Assyrian royal inscription tells us of how the Lydian king Gyges received dreams from the Assyrian god Ashur.

However, no record of this has been found in Mesopotamian annals ; Assyrian tradition lists an early Assyrian king named Ushpia as having dedicated the first temple to the god Ashur in the city in ca.

It is highly likely that the city was named in honour of the Assyrian god of the same name.

* Ashur ( god ), ancient Assyrian tyrant

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.

It is from this period that the later Syria Vs Assyria naming controversy arises, the Seleucids applied the name not only to Assyria itself, but also to the lands to the west ( Aram modern Syria ) which had been part of the Assyrian empire.

In addition, there is no evidence whatsoever in Assyrian, Babylonian, Median, Persian, Greek or Egyptian records of the time mentioning deportations of Assyrians from their homelands

After 90 years of effort, the University of Chicago has published an Assyrian Dictionary, whose form is more encyclopedia in style than dictionary.

A small minority believe that it is evidence for the existence of ancient Assyrian telescopes, which could explain the great accuracy of Assyrian astronomy.

There is a mutual recognition of the validity of orders amongst Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Old Catholic, Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian Nestorian churches.

( The Deuteronomist author may have used the then-recent 701 BCE campaign of the Assyrian king Sennacherib in Judah as his model ; the hanging of the captured kings is in accordance with Assyrian practice of the 8th century ).

In Judaism and Christianity, its authorship is attributed to a prophet who lived in the Assyrian Period, Obadiah, whose name means “ servant or worshipper of Yahweh ”.

This theory is evidenced by the fact that the oracles must be dated after the Assyrian destruction of Thebes in 663 BCE as this event is mentioned in Nahum 3: 8.

The subject of Nahum's prophecy is the approaching complete and final destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the great and at that time flourishing Assyrian empire.

Nineveh is ironically compared with a lion, in reference to the lion as an Assyrian symbol of power ; Nineveh is the lion of strength that has a den full of dead prey but will become weak like the lion hiding in its den.

It is called in Assyrian mat Kaldi " land of Chaldea ".

Though belonging to the same Semitic ethnic group, they are to be differentiated from the Aramean stock ; and the Assyrian king Sennacherib, for example, is careful in his inscriptions to distinguish them.

However, the Council is not accepted by several of the ancient eastern churches, including the Oriental Orthodox of Egypt, Syria and Armenia, and the Assyrian Church of the East.

In the Babylonian tale, Enlil's role is taken by Marduk, Enki's son, and in the Assyrian version it is Asshur.

The consort of Ea, known as Ninhursag, Ki, Uriash Damkina, " lady of that which is below ", or Damgalnunna, " big lady of the waters ", originally was fully equal with Ea, but in more patriarchal Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian times plays a part merely in association with her lord.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

It is believed that when the Assyrian Empire was destroyed Babylon developed as an empire with its very famous hanging gardens.

Aside from the Hebrew Bible, Jehu appears in Assyrian documents, notably in the Black Obelisk where he is depicted as kissing the ground in front of Shalmaneser III.

In the Assyrian documents he is simply referred to as " Jehu son of Omri " ( The House of Omri being an Assyrian name for the Kingdom of Israel ).

* Shaushka, or Shawushka, Šauska ; was the Hurrian counterpart of Assyrian Ishtar, and a goddess of fertility, war and healing.

He is a counterpart to the Assyrian god Adad, and the Hurrian god, Teshub.

But you did not do this today .” He was at great pains to placate his Assyrian counterpart following the “ sad experiences ” encountered by his envoys in their dealings with his predecessor and call on Adad-nārārī to confirm with his own envoy, Bel-qarrad, that he had been treated well by Hattušili.