Naga, Who is Lord Nergal ? - He is the 🤣knucklehead god of everything that cannot be bought 'OR' negotiated with, the misunderstood Lord of the Harsh Sun and the Underworld — By General NobuNaGa
NERGAL: The Misunderstood Lord of the Harsh Sun and the Underworld For thousands of years, Nergal stood as one of Mesopotamia’s most formidable deities — a god who embodied the violent, destructive, and feverish forces of nature. Yet in modern discourse, he is often flattened into a “fallen angel,” a “demon,” or a character in occult fantasy. These labels say more about later religious politics than about Nergal himself. To understand him properly, we return to the ancient sources. 1. Who Nergal Actually Was in Mesopotamian Thought Nergal emerges from Sumerian and Akkadian traditions as a god of: The Underworld Death and plague War and destruction The scorching, deadly sun at its zenith He is not a passive custodian of the dead. He is the embodiment of the hard edge of existence — the sun that burns crops, the fever that sweeps through cities, the battlefield where life is torn apart. His Sumerian name, En-eri-gal , means “Lord of the Great City,” a euphemism for the Underworld...