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Marduk & Nabû, Gods of Babylon
As Babylon conquered, so did its god — Marduk made king of heaven, with Nabû his scribe holding the stylus of fate.
As Babylon rose to dominate Mesopotamia, its city-god Marduk rose with it — promoted in myth and cult to king of the gods, the victor over chaos in Enuma Elish, master of the fifty names that gather all divine powers to himself. His son Nabu, god of Borsippa, became the patron of the scribal art, of writing, wisdom, and the recording of destinies. Together father and son anchored Babylonian religion in the first millennium: Marduk the sovereign, Nabu the keeper of the stylus, whose annual procession to Babylon was a high point of the religious year.
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A hymn to Marduk for Abī-Ešuḫ (Abī-Ešuḫ A)
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