Anzû (mythology)

It should be (even to; Sumerian ananx (IM) -du- gud ) is the name of one being Mesopotamian mythology and means powerful / strong cloud. In the Akkadian term is a loan word whose original meaning is unclear. The Sumerian name is Imdugud.

Description and illustrations

Anzu looked very strange, what was even proverbial, Kima Anzi Sanu nabnīta ( Tukulti -Ninurta epic ). Benno Landsberger assumes that he had the face of a bat (Pan Anzi ). He had a beak like a saw ( Anzu myth SB), which is inconsistent with the usual pictorial representations with lion's head.

First glyptische evidence of the mythological predecessor of the person to date to the era Ed II ( 2550 BC) to Ed IIIa (2500 BC). Anzu is iconographically represented initially similar to the Löwenadler of Akkad and neusumerischen time.

From the reign of Gudea comes the very rare motif of two lions floating lion eagle, which was incorporated twice on the Gudeastele. The distinction made in this context of classification should be as Löwenadler is not assured, since those derivation refers to the partially unclear text of Gudeastele.

(?) "His brick shape " box ", to which he had carved a drawing and his stamp, he had pressed hard, ( wore ) a Anzu, the emblem of his Lord ( Ningirsu ); to a standard (?) he adorned them out. "

Due to other representations of the lion eagle previous type, for example, from the time of Eannatum that Assyriologists think it likely that it is on the Gudeastele is a Löwenadler in the aforementioned should be. In later eras the representations of Anzu meet a lion dragon.

Goldsmith and Gould maintain the Mari - Figurine contrast to the image of a bat.

Myth

• Anzu - Myth
• Inanna and the huluppu tree.