amentifenixSpooky Season Special: Nergal is the Mesopotamian god of death, disease and war. He appears in the most famous myths as the king consort of the Underworld, besides queen Ereshkigal. He was worshiped all the way in Mesopotamian history and by all the peoples that inhabited it, from the early Sumerians to the late Neo-Babylonians and into Achaemenid rule. In Mesopotamian art, he often wields lion-themed weapons.In Babylonian astrology, he's the god of the planet we call Mars. This notion was adopted by the Hellenistic Greek culture and sprung the association between the Greek war god Ares and that planet. Later, the Romans adapted that idea to their own war god, Mars, and the rest is history.Tres Veces Grande 2/6#mythology #mythological #myth #perrosyserpientes #serpenscauda