What is "marduk"

Marduk ( Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR.UTU "solar calf"; Greek , Mardochaios) was a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon. When Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century BCE), he slowly started to rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BC. In the city of Babylon, he resided in the temple Esagila. "Marduk" is the Babylonian form of his name.

According to The Encyclopedia of Religion, the name Marduk was probably pronounced Marutuk. The etymology of the name Marduk is conjectured as derived from amar-Utu ("bull calf of the sun god Utu"). The origin of Marduk's name may reflect an earlier genealogy, or have had cultural ties to the ancient city of Sippar (whose god was Utu, the sun god), dating back to the third millennium BC.

In the perfected system of astrology, Jupiter was associated with Marduk by the Hammurabi period.

Marduk is a black metal band from Norrköping, Sweden. The band formed in 1990 and released their first album in 1992. Their name is derived from the Babylonian god Marduk, patron deity of Babylon.

Marduk is the historic patron deity of the city of Babylon, in the 18th century BC. Marduk may also refer to:

• Marduk (band), a Swedish black metal band

• Marduk, a fictional character in the Sacrifice computer game
• Craig Marduk, a fictional character in the Tekken computer games series

• Marduk, a hypothetical tenth planet proposed by Zecharia Sitchin
• Marduk, a fictional planet in the Empire of Man series