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Updated: May 3, 2025
Her chief attendants are the terrible Namtar and a scribe also a female known as Belit-seri. Of these two personages, Namtar, the personification of disease, is a popular conception, whereas the addition of a scribe points again to the influence of the schools. Marduk, the chief god of the living, has a scribe who writes down, at the god's dictation, the fate decreed for individuals.
Belit-seri, whose name signifies 'mistress of the field, was originally a goddess of vegetation, some local deity who has been reduced to the rank of an attendant upon a greater one; and it is significant that almost all the members of the nether-world pantheon are in some way connected with vegetation.
In the month of Tebet, the tenth month, there was celebrated a festival of mourning for the lost En-meshara. It is the time of the winter solstice. A similar fate must have overtaken Belit-seri, Girra, and Gil. For a time, at least, they are hidden in the realm of Allatu.
Compare the name 'Belit-seri, 'mistress of the fields, as the name of a goddess who belongs to the pantheon of the lower world. See p. 588. IIR. 61, nos. 1, 2, 6. Text, Kar, i.e., 'dam, 'wall, or 'quay. IIR. 50, l. 8. Bezold Catalogue, etc., p. 1776. Lit., 'enclosure. See Bezold Catalogue, etc., p. 1776 and elsewhere. E.g., IIR. 54-60; IIIR. 67-69; VR. 43, 46. IIR. 60, no. 1, obverse.
Whatever else the relationship of 'sister' to Tammuz means, it certainly indicates that Belili belongs to the deities of vegetation, and it may be that she will turn out to be identical with Belit-seri, which is merely the designation of some goddess, and not a real name.
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