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What a God Is (the Divine, the Personal God)
Every person had a god of their own — and to lose its favor was to fall sick and unlucky.
Mesopotamians distinguished several scales of the divine. There were the great cosmic gods of sky, storm, water, sun, and Venus; the patron gods who 'owned' particular cities and lived in their temples; and the 'personal god' — a kind of divine guardian attached to each individual, whose favor meant health and success and whose departure left one exposed to misfortune and demons. In cuneiform a small star-sign (the DINGIR classifier) was written before a divine name to mark it as a god. To 'have one's god' was to be protected; to lose it was to fall ill or unlucky.
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