Nergal and Ereškigal: God's fear of the underworld, which has not happened.
It ends when Nergal, Marduk's brother, journeys from South Africa to
Babylon and persuades Marduk to leave Mesopotamia.
As long
as 3,000 years ago, Babylonian astronomer-astrologers called the planet Nergal for their god of death and pestilence.
About 3,000
years ago, Babylonian astronomers as well as astrologers called the planet Nergal for their god of death and disease.
Describing Nergal, the king of the underworld,
he recorded:“ With a fierce cry he shrieked at me wrathfully like a furious storm.”.
The Egyptians called it Harmakis, the Babylonians Nergal and the Greeks knew it as Ares,
the God of War, son of Zeus and Hera.