What is "shamash"

Usage examples of "shamash".

We passed many temples of the lesser gods, and then the great ziggurat of Shamash, with the solar disk mounted at its apex.

Akkadians, who destroyed so much Persian culture when they conquered, did not extinguish the Sacred Fires of Drujan, hailing it instead as evidence that the solar fire of Shamash had descended to earth to put the seal on their victory.

Before Shamash, I pledge you, I have taken every precaution to ensure that no further incidents occur.

The sun of Shamash was declining toward the west as they approached the Nantukhtar base.

White-robed priests were first in line, to bless the monarch and his selected lords, to thank Marduk and Shamash and Ishtar for his safe return, to implore his personal stars for his everlasting glory.

Marduk and Shamash and Ishtar for his safe return, to implore his personal stars for his everlasting glory.

We were near the ruins of ancient Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrians, where the temples of Ishtar and Shamash once rose in glory.

Akkadians, ever since Ahzimandias, the Spear of Shamash, led his people out of the deserts of the Umaiyyat to reclaim the rights of the long-fallen House of Ur.

In order to maintain the large household represented by such an organization as that of the temple of Enlil of Nippur, that of Ningirsu at Lagash, that of Marduk at Babylon, or that of Shamash at Sippar, large holdings of land were required which, cultivated by agents for the priests, or farmed out with stipulations for a goodly share of the produce, secured an income for the maintenance of the temple officials.

The first hint that a cryptographic number system was applied to the Great Gods came with the discovery that the names of the gods Sin, Shamash, and Ishtar were sometimes substituted in the texts by the numbers 30, 20, and 15, respectively.