Nusku
Mesopotamian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Nusku is the lamp and the altar flame at once — fire as light to see by and fire as the thing that carries an offering upward. He serves Enlil as sukkal at Nippur, and in Atra-hasis it is Nusku who wakes his master in the night to tell him the junior gods have downed tools and surrounded the house. Incantations against witchcraft call on him: a god of light is the natural power to invoke against things done in the dark.
Domains
- fire
- light
Relations
- subordinate to: EnlilSukkal of Enlil; in Atra-hasis it is Nusku who wakes Enlil when the rebelling gods surround his house.Reference treatment of Nusku as the sukkal of Enlil at Nippur. (secondary)
Sources
- Nusku is the Mesopotamian god of fire and light, heavenly and terrestrial, and the sukkal of Enlil at Nippur.: Reference treatment of Nusku as god of fire and patron of civilisation. (secondary)