The supplied sources identify Ašur as the national god of the Assyrians and locate him at the center of Assyrian state religion and identity. The provided material does not include a detailed mythic origin narrative for Ašur or accounts of his birth, genealogy, or cosmogonic deeds; it presents him primarily in his historical role as the principal deity of the Assyrian people.
The provided sources do not describe Ašur's physical appearance or iconography. No depiction, anthropomorphic or zoomorphic attributes, or standard visual markers are given in the supplied materials.
The sources supplied do not enumerate specific supernatural powers or mythic deeds of Ašur. They state his role as the national god of the Assyrians, implying a central cultic and political function in sanctioning Assyrian identity and institutions, but do not provide explicit descriptions of abilities, deeds, or domains in the excerpts provided.
Ashur (Aššur)
Ashur is the civic-national deity of the ancient city and polity Aššur/Assyria. He functions as the divine sovereign and patron of the city-state: kings present themselves as his governors (iššiak), his temple and cult objects (notably weapons) played central roles in oaths, ordeals, and imperial administration.
Aëdon
Aëdon is a mythic woman in ancient Greek tradition who, after killing (or attempting to kill) a child in a tragic episode of jealousy or madness, is transformed into the nightingale; the bird's plaintive song is presented as her eternal mourning for the lost child.
Aëtos
Aëtos (Greek: Ἀετός, 'eagle') is an earth-born youth in Greek myth who is transformed into the eagle that becomes the sacred bird and emblem of Zeus. In surviving accounts he functions etiologically as the origin/personification of Zeus's eagle and appears in narrations of Zeus's youth, the Gigantomachy, the torment of Prometheus, and the rescue by Heracles.
Añjanā
Añjanā (Sanskrit: अञ्जना; also Anjani, Anjali) is a semi-divine figure of the Ramayana cycle, described as an apsara reborn among the vanaras and the mother of the hero Hanuman. She figures both in pan-Indian epic narratives (as wife of Kesari and devotee of Vayu) and in regional cultic practice (notably a temple tradition in Himachal Pradesh) and is adapted in Javanese wayang as Dewi Anjani.
Aśvatthāmā (Ashvatthama)
Aśvatthāmā is a major human warrior-character in the Indian epic Mahābhārata, son of the teacher Drona and close ally of the Kaurava leader Duryodhana. In postwar narrative episodes he is depicted committing a nocturnal slaughter of sleeping rivals and attempting to use the cosmic weapon Brahmāstra, after which the sage Vyasa admonishes and curses him in the dramatic retellings cited.
Ašratum
Ašratum is an ancient Mesopotamian goddess name attested in sources as of Amorite origin and regarded in those sources as the wife/consort of the god Amurru (Sumerian Martu). Her name is treated in scholarship as a cognate of the Ugaritic Athirat / Hebrew Asherah name-family, though the supplied sources note that cognate names did not necessarily occupy identical roles across different pantheons.
Aštabi
Aštabi is an ancient Near Eastern deity attested in Eblaite, Hurrian, Ugaritic, and Hittite contexts. In later Hurrian and Hittite sources he functions as a war god and participant in divine assemblies and mythic combat; in the earliest Eblaite documents his precise original character is unresolved though he had named cult centers and cultic statues.
Ašvieniai
Ašvieniai are the paired divine twins of Baltic (particularly Lithuanian) tradition, horse-associated celestial beings who pull the chariot of Saulė (the Sun) across the sky and appear as protective little horses used as apotropaic motifs in vernacular architecture and household objects.
Aṅgulimāla
Aṅgulimāla is a figure from early Buddhist literature: a notorious human brigand who wore a 'finger necklace' and, after an encounter with the Buddha at Sāvatthī, renounced violence, ordained as a monk, and is presented in the tradition as attaining liberation. In later South and Southeast Asian popular religion he is also invoked as a protector in childbirth and associated with fertility.
Ba (Egyptian soul)
The ba is one element of the ancient Egyptian multipart conception of the person: an individuated, mobile aspect of a human that survives death, is commonly depicted as a human-headed bird, and moves between tomb, body, and the afterlife. It is distinct from other components such as the ka and the akh and is central to funerary practices that maintain continued identity after death.
Baal
Baal (bāʿal) is a Northwest Semitic title meaning 'owner' or 'lord' that served as a theonym in the ancient Levant; in Ugaritic and Canaanite texts it appears as the name/title of a prominent storm and fertility god (often rendered Baʿal Haddu) who features centrally in the Baal Cycle and in regional cults tied to rain, fertility, and kingship. In later monotheistic literatures the term becomes a polemical label for rival or foreign deities and is reinterpreted in various receptions.
Baal-berith
Baal-berith (also attested in some reference works as El Berith) is a named deity-title from ancient Canaanite religion, attested in Biblical sources and later reference literature as a local god or title worshiped at Shechem and associated with covenants—commonly glossed as "Baal of the Covenant." Later reception reuses the name polemically or in modern occult and cultural contexts.
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- [1]Ashur (god) - Wikipedia. Wikipedia: 'Ashur, Ashshur, also spelled Ašur, Aššur was the national god of the Assyrians in ancient times until their gradual conversion to Christianity between the 1st and 5th centuries AD.'wiki
- [2]YYV4C11 Yada Yahowah Observations Teaching Being Accountable Darkness Before the Light… (archive). Archive listing consulted; contains no additional material on Ašur beyond its presence in the source list.other
- [3]Christian Talk That Rocks with Richie L. Ep. 12/7/2023 (archive). Archive listing consulted; contains no additional material on Ašur beyond its presence in the source list.other
- [4]CIA Reading Room: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-APPENDIX (archive). Archive listing consulted; contains no additional material on Ašur beyond its presence in the source list.other