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Updated: May 19, 2025
His divine associates are no less anxious than his human subjects to pacify the mighty god. Passing on to another god, a hymn to the storm-god, Ramman, enables us to specify the great terror that the god, as the general source of disturbances in the heavenly phenomena, inspired. The god is addressed as
The selection of the hand of a man who has been hanged is probably due to the superstition which regarded the storm-god Odin as peculiarly the lord of the gallows. The man who is raised upon the gallows is placed directly in the track of the wild huntsman, who comes with his hounds to carry off the victim; and hence the notion, which, according to Mr.
This double nature of Ramman as a solar deity representing some particular phase of the sun that escapes us and as a storm-god still peers through the inscription above noted from the Cassite period where Ramman is called 'the lord of justice, an attribute peculiar to the sun-god; but in Assyria his rôle as the thunder-and storm-god overshadows any other attributes that he may have had.
The approach of Siluk, the Storm-God, brought terror not only to the animals of the boundless wilderness. Besides the creatures that lived in the treetops, in the air, on the floor of the forest and under the rubbish that littered the ground were other living beings, no less wild, no less savage than the ones that shared their jungle homes.
With the coming of night, Siluk, the Storm-God, laid a heavy hand upon the cowering jungle. Now, the coming of night in the Upper Amazon is in itself an awe-inspiring event; but coupled with the furious onslaught of Siluk, the Storm-God, it is terrible.
Like the winds unchained by the storm-god, the passions of men marked their accursed sweep over the fairest city of Europe in torrents of human blood and the wreck of material grandeur. Those who have visited the superb queen of cities as she once flourished in our days could not, even in imagination, grasp the contrast between Paris of the present and the Paris of two hundred years ago.
Nergal tore away the ship's anchor, while Ninib directed the storm; the Anunnaki carried their lightning-torches and lit up the land with their brightness; the whirlwind of the Storm-god reached the heavens, and all light was turned into darkness. The storm raged the whole day, covering mountain and people with water.
Anu opens his mouth and speaks, Addressing the gods his children: 'Who will force Zu to submit And thus make his name great among the inhabitants of the whole world? Ramman the storm-god par excellence is first called upon by the assembled gods: 'Ramman the chief, they cried, 'the son of Anu. Anu communicated to him the order.
The storm-god En-lil is set aside to make room for the solar deity Marduk. But, despite such efforts, the old tales, once committed to writing on the practically imperishable clay, survived, if not in the minds of the people, at least in the archives of the ancient temples.
Where the moonlight touched the Gulf in patches, far out, whitecaps showed. "Listen," MacRae murmured. The wind struck them with a puff that sent sparks flying. It rose and fell and rose again until it whistled across the Point in a steady drone, the chill breath of the storm-god. MacRae turned up Betty's wrist and looked at her watch. "Look at the time, Betty mine," he said.
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