- Namtar's name means "fate" in Sumerian.[1] It can be differentiated from the ordinary word "fate" in Sumerian texts due to being preceded by the dingir sign...
- Namtar was an evil god of death from Mesopotamian mythology, and the messenger of An, Ereshkigal, and Nergal. Namtar was the son of Enlil and Erishkigal...
- Namtar and the Underworld: His Connection with Ereshkigal. Namtar’s Powers and Abilities: Perception of Death and Interdimensional Travel.
- Namtar. Namtaru ( Sum. dnam.tar, dna -am- tar, akkad. ... In the myth of Nergal and Ereškigal Namtar is the messenger of Ereškigal.
- At first Enlil had Namtar, the god of death, cause a plague to diminish the human population, but the wise Atrahasis, at the advice of Enki...
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- Namtar. Real/full name: Ivo Wijers. ... As Ivo "Namtar" Weijers: Drums (2006-2009).
- During Ishtar’s journey to the underworld, Namtar is believed to have cursed her with sixty diseases (I cannot speak to the veracity/historicity of this myth).