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Nusku   Listen
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Nusku  n.  (Assyrian mythology) The god of fire and light; corresponds to the Babylonian Girru.






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... atmospheric deities Babylonia had also its fire gods, Girru, Gish Bar, Gibil, and Nusku. Their origin is obscure. It is doubtful if their worshippers, like those of the Indian Agni, believed that fire, the "vital spark", was the principle of life which was manifested by bodily heat. The Aryan fire worshippers cremated their dead so that the spirits might be transferred ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie



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