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Updated: October 17, 2025
Ekur and Eshara being employed as synonyms, Shamshi-Ramman replaces Ekur by Eshara, and since Bel is the lord of Ekur-Eshara, Nin-ib also becomes the first-born son of Bel.
Every nomen, as constituting the essence of an object, was always and above all an omen. It is, therefore, plausible to suppose that titles of the gods should have been chosen in part under the influence of this idea. A parallel would be furnished by Ekur, which signifies both 'temple' and 'earth, and is also one of the names of the gathering-place of the dead.
Ekur is one of the names for the earth, but is applied more particularly to that part of the mountain, also known as Kharsag -kurkura, i.e., 'the mountain of all lands' where the gods were born. Before the later speculative view was developed, according to which the gods, or most of them, have their seats in heaven, it was on this mountain also that the gods were supposed to dwell.
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