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.

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

* Shamash, the Assyrian and Babylonian sun god

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

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

Sippar was the cult site of the sun god ( Sumerian Utu, Akkadian Shamash ) and the home of his temple E-babbara.

The city had temples to Nergal ( Babylonian and Akkadian ), Hermes ( Greek ), Atargatis ( Syro-Aramaean ), Allat and Shamiyyah ( Arabian ) and Shamash ( the Mesopotamian sun god ).

Balaam, though still a son of Beor, in this narrative is a prophet of Shamash, the Semitic sun god ( The word " shemesh " is still the Hebrew word for " sun ," which in Arabic is " shams ").

If this reflects the god that El refers to in the biblical text concerning Balaam, and the connection between Balaam and Baal Peor is accurate, then Baal Peor can be identified as Shamash.

How, when or why this occurred is uncertain, but is commonly attributed to a conflation with Babylonian Shamash, who – in addition to being a Sun god – was a judicial figure like Mithra.

The Assyrian god Shamash is a counterpart to Shivini.

There are two public monuments at Al-Dour, a small square fort with round corner towers and a small square temple dedicated to the Semitic sun god Shamash.

Temples to the moon god Sin ( Nanna ) and the sun god Shamash were erected in the 15th century BC.

Academic discussion of a star or stars together with crescents in Sumerian representations does not always clearly indicate if they appear in isolation ( the " star and crescent " as such ) or as part of a triad of symbols, " the three celestial emblems, the sun disk of Shamash ( Utu to the Sumerians ), the crescent of Sin ( Nanna ), and the star of Ishtar ( Inanna to the Sumerians )" or " the crescent of Sin ( the moon god ), the star of Ishtar and the ray of Shamash ".

" 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.

Dagan, the deity of storms, had an entire temple dedicated to him, as did Ishtar, the goddess of fertility, and Shamash, the Sun god.

The god who sends a disease can also prevent from it, therefore when it stops they make a purifying ceremony and offer him an " hecatomb " to ward off evil.

Zeus sends the god Hermes to escort King Priam, Hector ’ s father and the ruler of Troy, into the Greek camp.

On the one hand he is the god who, through bringing on the rain in due season, causes the land to become fertile, and, on the other hand, the storms that he sends out bring havoc and destruction.

The Elder sends Jyaku to the human world to find the Chōjin: the unbeatable god of the demon world who is hiding within the body of a man.

The Asgardian Trickster god Loki, in revenge for a past defeat by the X-Men, sends the Enchantress to kidnap Storm and the X-Men.

However, unlike when a god usually sends an avatar and its true form resides usually on one of the Outer Planes, the gods were all demoted and this was the only form they had at the time, making them very vulnerable.

When the god Zeus ( Laurence Olivier ) impregnates her, Acrisius sends his daughter and his newborn grandson Perseus to sea in a wooden coffin.

The sister, whose brother lives far away from her and cannot come to her house, sends her sincerest prayers for the long and happy life of her brother through the moon god.

Shu and Tefnut, the children of this creator god, have drifted away from him in the waters of Nu, the chaos that exists before creation in Egyptian belief, so he sends out his Eye to find them.

The god Poseidon, meanwhile, sends an ill omen of two snakes which kill Laocoön and his sons ; seeing this, Aeneas and his men leave Troy in anticipation of what is to come.

She sends him to search himself and when he gives up, she dispatches a bee, charging it to purify the god by stinging his hands and feet and wiping his eyes and feet with wax.

* Janus ( Warehouse 13 ), an ancient magical coin artifact of the Roman god Janus that can erase a past life memory of a person to start a new life.

Plutarch and others have noted that the sacrifices to Osiris were " gloomy, solemn, and mournful ..." ( Isis and Osiris, 69 ) and that the great mystery festival, celebrated in two phases, began at Abydos on the 17th of Athyr ( November 13 ) commemorating the death of the god, which was also the same day that grain was planted in the ground.

Josephus ( Antiquities 8. 13. 1 ) states clearly that Jezebel " built a temple to the god of the Tyrians, which they call Belus " which certainly refers to the Baal of Tyre, or Melqart.

Tane Mahuta, named after the Māori forest god, is the biggest existing kauri with a girth of 13. 77 metres ( 45. 2 feet ), a trunk height of 17. 68 metres ( 58. 0 feet ), a total height of 51. 2 metres ( 168 feet )< ref >

The word Elohim occurs more than 2500 times in the Hebrew Bible, with meanings ranging from " god " in a general sense ( as in Exodus 12: 12, where it describes " the gods of Egypt "), to a specific god ( e. g., 1 Kings 11: 33, where it describes Chemosh " the god of Moab ", or the frequent references to Yahweh as the " elohim " of Israel ), to demons, seraphim, and other supernatural beings, to the spirits of the dead brought up at the behest of King Saul in 1 Samuel 28: 13, and even to kings and prophets ( e. g., Exodus 4: 16 ).

In this way, we have Jewish names like Asmodai ( Book of Tobit ), Azazel ( Leviticus 16: 8-10 ), or Belial ( Deuteronomy 13: 13, Book of Judges 19: 22, Books of Samuel, part 1, 1: 16, 2: 12 10: 27 and 25: 17, and part 2 16: 7 and 22: 5, Books of Kings part 1, 21: 10-13, Books of Chronicles, part 1, 13: 7 ); Semitic deities like Adramelech, Baal ( see Baal ( demon ), Baal was also a general Jewish name for a false god ), Ashtaroth ( derived from Astarte ); Greek, Roman and Egyptian names like Bifrons ( See Bifrons ( demon )), Lamia, Phoenix ( see Phenex ); and so on.

According to the Hebrew Bible, the worship of this god, " the abomination of Moab ," was introduced at Jerusalem by Solomon ( 1 Kings 11: 7 ), but was abolished by Josiah ( 2 Kings 23: 13 ).

2, # 13 that he is the genuine Norse god.

When Wonder Woman led each tribe of Amazons into an ecumenical prayer, funneling power into the new god Darkseid, the warrior women helped destroy Imperiex and its ally Brainiac 13.

* Amarnath: Journey to the shrine of a Hindu god, Boston Globe photographs, July 13, 2012

Mictlantecuhtli ( left ), god of death, the lord of the Underworld and Quetzalcoatl ( right ), god of wisdom, life, knowledge, morning star, patron of the winds and light, the lord of the West.

They state that these were originally the seven days each year ( either side of the shortest day of the year ) during which Alcyone ( as a kingfisher ) laid her eggs and made her nest on the beach and during which her father Aeolus, god of the winds, restrained the winds and calmed the waves so she could do so in safety.

While the other children have agreed to the separation Tāwhirimātea, the god of storms and winds, is angered that the parents have been torn apart.

Tāwhirimātea, the god of storms and winds, is angry that the parents have been torn apart.

Because of this he was subjected to the fury of his brother Tāwhirimātea, god of winds and storms, who would have killed him if their mother had not hidden him in her body, that is, in the ground.

In the Polynesian mythology of Tonga, Laufakanaa ( speak to silence ; i. e.: command winds to calm down ) was a primordial creator god.

The name comes from Aeolus, Greek god of the winds, though the reason for the name change is disputed.

Stribog ( Stribozh, Strzybog, Стрибог ) in the Slavic pantheon, is the god and spirit of the winds, sky and air ; he is said to be the ancestor ( grandfather ) of the winds of the eight directions.

But the god Jest Much asked the Lord of the Winds and the Leader of the Rains to let loose strong winds and heavy rain.

The term is derived from the name of the Greek god, Æolus, the keeper of the winds.

This imagery is facilitated by the title of Enlil as the " god of the winds " The following text suggests that the setting of the myth was subject to a destructive storm prior to its final destruction:

* Lono – god of agriculture, clouds, rain, winds, the surface of the sea, and the patron of the Makahiki harvest festival.

It was discovered in 1834, and originally dubbed Aeolus ' Cave, after the Greek god of winds.

At the end of the year, the Great Oak ( in which the rat god Hobb was imprisoned by Ysabelle in The Oaken Throne ) falls down because of heavy winds, and many of the grey squirrels in the park begin to whisper that it was Audrey's fault because she is not a squirrel but merely a mouse.

The same source relates how Kukulkan always travels ahead of the Yucatec Maya rain god Chaac, helping to predict the rains as his tail moves the winds and sweeps the earth clean.

Tara or Tlatchque, the god of thunder, used a giant blowpipe to shoot the balls at the Serkes, gods of winds and hurricanes, in order to drive them out of these lands.