Marduk (Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR.UTU "solar calf"; perhaps from
MERI.DUG; Biblical Hebrew Merodach; Greek identified with Marduk by
Heinrich Zimmeren (1862-1931), Stade's Zeitschrift 11, p. 161.,
Mardochaios) was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient
Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon
permanently became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the
time of Hammurabi (18th century BC), started to slowly rise to the
position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully
acquired by the second half of the second millennium BC.
Nibiru, to the Babylonians, was the celestial body or region sometimes
associated with the god Marduk.
History cylinder seal]]Marduk's original character is obscure but he was
later on connected with water, vegetation, judgement, and white magic. He
was also regarded as the son of Ea (Sumerian Enki) an
Marduk,
