Talk:Marduk

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I've noticed some ommisions and errors in the Brittanica 1911 entry. I myself do not know to what extent the Brittanica article was inaccurate, so I put it in it's own section so that it can be referenced.
-Shawn P. 'Indefual' Conroy

moved from article:

In our times a new Kingdom of Marduk has been established. The founder, HM KING MARDUK I., claims acceptance and registration by the United Nations. His kingdom consists of different parts of land, mainly around Lake Constance. They are:

former german enclave in switzerland Verenahof, today german enclave in Switzerland Büsingen, italian enclave in Switzerland Campione d'Italia, islands Mainau, Reichenau in Lake Constance, austrian pene-enclave in Germany Jungholz, austrian Kleinwalsertal, (former) enclave in Italy Seborga, Vatican, former austrain enclave in Liechtenstein Balzers, Constance and Taegermoos close to Lake Constance, entity Lindau close to Lake Constance

The self-proclaimed King of Marduk claims all these pieces of land by saying they have not been mentioned in treaties since World War II, which changed the situation in Central Europe. As a logical consequence those entities don't belong to the old countries like Deutsches Reich which no longer exist, nor even to their successors like Bundesrepublik Deutschland on account of their omission from the treaties. As a result they don't belong to any other state or person, so according to international law anyone who wants can claim them - and he did! It will be interesting to see how things will develop...

Link:Proclamation

— I consider this a vanity article. If it was at all notable, it should have its own article, and not be on the page of the babylonian god. dab 20:03, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Astrological association

Marduk was a sun god. He was associated with the sun, pretty much like Ra in Egypt. It is interesting to note that Marduk rose to power in Babylon starting circa 2200 BC, and the Egyptian God Amun-Ra which the Thebans Egyptian rulers worshipped also rose to Power at around this time. This is no coincidence and the fact that the Era of Aries started at around 2200 BC has a lot to do with it. It is as if both cultures were being manipulated by an invisible supernatural something (gods).

Nabu, god of wisdom, is a son of Marduk.

--There is no evidence of a connection between Marduk and Amun-Ra, nor of the rise of those deities with the so-called "Era of Aries."

Hammurabi or Nebuchadnezzar I

I'm in a history of religion class, and we went over the Enuma Elish and Marduk's rise as the "main god" - our teacher has stated that the Enuma Elish appeared with Nebuchadnezzar I not Hammurabi. The textbook seems to support this. I'm going to look for sources soon, (right now I'm too busy to do more than comment), but can anyone else clear this up? -- Stillnotelf 04:09, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Link disambiguation

Could someone replace the link to [[Persian]] in "...the Persian Mordechai (Book of Esther) ..." to a more appropriate link like [[persian_language]], [[Persian_empire]] or [[Persian_people]] ? Mahanchian 19:34, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fifty names of Marduk

What are they? Rich Farmbrough 08:04 18 May 2006 (UTC).

Merodach

Literally translated means "man of Marduk", not necessarily Marduk as the writer leads one to beleive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.14.180.177 (talk) 20:17, 4 July 2006

You are thinking of Evil-merodach, whose name means "man of Marduk." -- 128.227.13.236 04:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Marduk and pet.jpg

Can someone explain the protrusion at the back of his head? —Viriditas | Talk 01:32, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Links--Odin?

Can anyone possibly explain why there is a link to Odin in the "See also" links? This seems utterly senseless to me, as there are really no links whatsoever between these gods, at all. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Messmer (talk • contribs) 00:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Marduk a sungod?

Can anyone explain in what way Marduk was connected with the sun? I haven never heard of that function. Djaser 18:45, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've found several websites that claim he was one. I'd prefer a primary source that says the same. T@nn 23:43, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My understanding is that Marduk is a sky god, meaning that the sun would be under his dominion but not be his principle characteristic. The "Father-Sky"/"Mother-Earth" dichotomy is evident in much ancient mythology, and Marduk's victory over Tiamat (which, strangely, is never discussed in the "Marduk" article) in the Enuma Elish is an example of such. It also appears to be a narrative sublimation of the supplanting of a matriarchal system by a patriarchal one in the Middle East. Daniel S. Clouser 12:31, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Astrology/Astronony

This is written in a very unclear manner and, frankly, gives me a headache. I'd clean it up, but don't know enough about the subject. I don't know enough, for example, to tell how much of this is factual. References are needed for this information. I'd like to remove the part about Marduk being a sun-god but, again, I don't have anything but my gut instinct that this is incorrect: primary source please T@nn 04:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

--the Astrology/Calendar part is indeed somewhat ugly to read (and nonsense nonetheless), especially the end part and the sun-god stuff. I would suggest to remove the section entirely except the first paragraph connecting Marduk with Jupiter (that could be verifyable). The rest seems to be just gibberish, and probably cannot be corrected without a proper source. For example in "It is said the Olympiad is 773 years before the real birth-year of the Christ, which ever year or christ it be. Tamuz is 773 years in that it is 1770-997 BC dividing Israel in two.", the bold passages really are at least unclear or unnecessary.

Biblical

Does biblical equate to biblical Hebrew? Either way, in Hebrew his name is מרדוך with different nikkud than the one in the article. 84.108.245.222 08:33, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Marduk Totally rules

Marduk, you totally rule. 69.23.139.184 (talk) 07:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]