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Dingir Comic
In texts they seem something like tornado spirits able to go where their queen directs
within the constraints of the Order. There are a few demons more powerful than them,
but not many. Here we see them being created by the goddess Ereshkigal, supreme
ruler of Kur The Underworld.
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Give heed to mine instruction, ye ignorant, yeah, obey the words of mine admonition,
ye reprobates.
Seven are the appalling Mekim l, seven destructions, sevens evils indwell them.
Denizens of darkness, neither man nor woman are these dwellers in desolation.
Nefarious servants are they of Namtar, the sukkal*1 of the harlot of the abyss.* 2
They rage underground, they ravage the lands, they bring turmoil to the sky.
Dismantled buildings, crops devastated, desolate cities are left in their wake.
Monumental the damage they wreak, gigantic the tumult of their madness.
The first, a howling wind inciting the waves, a hellish specter of bat might thou see.
The second is berserk and maniacal, a blood-lusting wolf which ruptures and rends.
The third, a dragon of drought, desiccating streams, withering crops, fire everywhere.
The fourth, a sudden calamity, the leopard falling on its prey for a swift devastation.
The fifth is a gloom, suffocating grey sky, bleak clouds, shadows paralyzing the land.
The sixth, a venomous serpent, a viper hissing in wrath, writhing in front of the sun.
The seventh a fever, this one is formless, a crumbling, collapse and disintegration.
Dingir Comic
Namtar, death, the hand of the gods, fate, Ereshkigal's Sukkal, and a few other things.
This is the grim reaper and the angel of death in the Sumerian religion. He serves as
the highest servant of queen Ereshkigal and is a powerful god in his own right.
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SOURCES
VanDerJagt, Edward. Author and Artist. DINGIR COMIC.
http://www.templeofsumer.org/comic/archive.html
http://enenuru.proboards.com/thread/374/maskim-hul#ixzz3wMoQMtbS