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Spirits of heaven, 90 IK-SU'DA (Grasper)

Date of account: Ancient traditions presented in a work published 1916
Source: Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria
Reference: Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria · selected passage 106
Rights: public_domain
Language: English synthesis of Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian material
Translation: Lewis Spence, with cited translations and retellings
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Spirits of heaven, 90 IK-SU'DA (Grasper). Attendant hound of Merodach, 202 IL-A-BRAT. Minister of Anu, 117 ILL'AT. Carthaginian deity, 330 IL-TE'HU (Holder). Attendant hound of Merodach, 202 IMAGE-S. Stars and, 233 IM-GÛR-BEL. City of, 354 'INCANTATION OF ERIDU.' The ceremony of the, 270 INDIA-NS. Semiramis makes war on Strabrobates, King of, 26, 27; followers of Zarathustra fled to; descendants, the Parsis of, 334; Araucanian, of Chile, 336 IN'ESH. The pilot of Eridu, 115 IN'MAR-MA'ON. City of, 108 INSCRIPTION-S. Of Shalmaneser I, 351; of Tukulti-ninip, 351 IR'KAL-LA. The abode of; the house of darkness, 128, 169 IR'NI-NA. A form of Ishtar, 165 IS-AI'AH. Jerusalem described by, 191; reference to Sargon's expedition against Ashdod mentioned by, 350 ISH'NU, Ura's counsellor, 269 ISH'TAR.

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