Laguda

Laguda (dla-gu-da, rarely dla-gù-dé[1]) was a Mesopotamian god most likely associated with the Persian Gulf.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Character
* 2 Worship
* 3 References
* 3.1 Bibliography

## Character

It is assumed that Laguda was a god of the sea, specifically the Persian Gulf.[2] According to Wilfred G. Lambert, the possibility that Laguda was a god of the sea is supported by his frequent association with other deities of such character.[3] Sirsir, a god mentioned alongside him in Marduk's Address to the Demons, was associated with sailors,[3] and it has been proposed that he can be identified as the so-called "boat god" on cylinder seals.[4] Laguda is also referenced in the incantation series Šurpu, where he is listed alongside the river god Lugalidda and the sea god Lugala'abba.[3]

The currently unpublished god list Anšar = Anum refers to Laguda as a name of Marduk, and associates him with Dilmun.[3] It is possible that he also appears in an enumeration of Marduk's names in another list.[5] However, the text Marduk's Address to the Demons attests that they were separate deities:[6] Template:C quote

## Worship

Laguda's cult center was most likely the city Nēmed-Laguda,[7] known from sources from the first millennium BCE.[8] Its precise location is not known, but based on mentions in ancient texts it can be assumed that it was close to cities such as Eridu, Larsa, Uruk and Ur.[8] It was also associated with Ea according to a neo-Babylonian royal letter.[7] At one point, gods of Nēmed-Laguda were returned by Sargon II.[8]

Laguda is also attested in two theophoric names from Nippur from the earlier Kassite period,[9] Tukulti-Laguda and Burra-Laguda.[3] The element burra\- in the latter name is Kassite,[10] making Laguda one of the deities who appear in Kassite theophoric names despite belonging to the Mesopotamian, rather than Kassite, pantheon.[11] His name was in this case written with a divine determinative (dingir), a cuneiform sign designating divine names,[10] unlike the names of any Kassite deities other than Shuqamuna and Shumaliya.[12]

## References

1. ↑ Lambert 1983, p. 430.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lambert 1983, p. 431.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Lambert 2013, p. 247.
4. ↑ Krebernik 2011, p. 554.
5. ↑ Lambert 2013, p. 154.
6. ↑ Lambert 1983, pp. 430–431.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 George 1993, p. 27.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Streck 1998, p. 209.
9. ↑ Bartelmus 2017, p. 310.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Balkan 1954, p. 51.
11. ↑ Balkan 1954, p. 101.
12. ↑ Bartelmus 2017, p. 247.

### Bibliography

* Balkan, Kemal (1954). Kassitenstudien 1. Die Sprache der Kassiten. New Haven, Connecticut: American Oriental Society.
* Bartelmus, Alexa (2017). "Die Götter der Kassitenzeit. Eine Analyse ihres Vorkommens in zeitgenössischen Textquellen". Karduniaš. Babylonia under the Kassites. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9781501503566-011.
* George, Andrew R. (1993). House most high: the temples of ancient Mesopotamia. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 0-931464-80-3. OCLC 27813103.
* Krebernik, Manfred (2011) (in de)
* Lambert, Wilfred G. (1983)
* Lambert, Wilfred G. (2013). Babylonian creation myths. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 978-1-57506-861-9. OCLC 861537250.
* Streck, Michael P. (1998) (in de)

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