Erra (god)
Erra ( dER3.RA, thE - ra -ra dEr3er, DER2, also Era, DERA, dIGI.DU, qurādu, dGIR3.RA, formerly known as Ira, Irra, Lubara, Dibbarra, Gir (r ) a, Ur ( r ) a read) is a Babylonian Pestgottheit. Erra decides who pulls away the plague, and who not.
Origin
Mob held Erra for Sumerian. After Edzard is an Akkadian deity, also holds Gössler Erra for " non- Sumerian ". According to Roberts, a detailed discussion of the origin missing as well as a detailed mythology. Roberts wants the name of the Semitic root * L-rd, " roast, scorch " derived.
Erra's position in the pantheon
In the Babylonian Pantheon Anu is the father Erra, his wife is the goddess of the underworld Mamitu / mommy. Erra is often equated with Nergal, mainly because both were worshiped in Kutha. Era was among other things, referred to as " the bravest of the gods", the heroic and the wild or tearing Era. He counts how Girra and Anu, the gods of the night, standing in the sky when Šamaš and Sin have perished. Against the plague a triad of Ea, Šamaš and Marduk was called. To his entourage next Išum include Šebetti.
Swell
The worship of Erra is by personal names as ISBI Erra ( Iš -bi -er- r [ a] ), Ipqu - Erra and Old Assyrian Era- dan (E -ra -da -an) and Šu - Era ( Šu - He - ra) occupied. Theophoric names containing the element Erra are occupied since sargonidischer time. They remain very popular until the Old Babylonian period. Era was invoked on amulets, some of which contain quotations from the era epic.
The Erra myth
The Akkadian Erra poem or Erra - Išum epic ša Gimir dadmē, king of all the living cities is the main source for the mythology of Erra. Copies of this myth were at Nineveh, Ashur ( KAR 169) Sultantepe, Babylon and Ur. There are 35 known versions of this poem, more than from the Gilgamesh epic.
The author was Kabti - Ilani -Marduk, who received the text in the context of a vision. The poem was probably written in Babylonia in the first millennium BC. The poem was usually spread over five panels. Its cost is estimated at 642 lines, of which 532 are completely or reconstructed.
Wolfram von Soden wants to connect the song with unrest in Uruk between 765-763 BC, Lambert and Bottero with the incursions of the Syrians and Suti around the turn of the millennium.
The song describes how Erra Marduk, the city god of Babylon, with a tricked persuaded to relinquish his power to him. Erra and his assistant Išum, the night watchman ( dEN.MI.DU.DU, Belu mūttallik MUSI ) and messenger of the gods, the Lord of the streets (BEL Suqi ), Marduk convinced that its the insignia were spotted and the fire god Girra they must clean. Marduk leaves Erra power over Babylon and its inhabitants. Babylon is now ravaged by war, devastation and disease. Išum brings Erra Erra but eventually to reason and decides splendid and magnificent than ever rebuild the city. The author of the myth turns in the last section directly to the reader of the text and recommends aufzuwahren clay tablets of his text to protect against disease and devastation in his house, as Erra will personally protect those who honor his myth.