Tishpak

Tišpak ( Tischpak ) (Sumerian DINGIRTišpak UR.SAG. -i -li ) was in the Sumerian religion originally the Sumerian serpent god Ninazu and thus the son of Enki and Ereškigal. After the merger with mythological Ninazu Tišpak was elevated to city god of Eshnunna. He was a weather god, Jacobsen will bring him in Verbindundung with the Hurrian Tesup. The gods Type text describes him as the God who enters the dragon with his two feet ( ina killatēšu Basma Kabis šumšu ( MU.BI ) dTišpak ).

His symbolic animal, the dragon was Mušḫušḫu, the " terrible snake". The fight against the Tišpak Mušḫušḫu is described in a text from the library of Ashurbanipal (CT 13.33-34 ), wants to date the Wiggerman in the altakkadische period.

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