WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Marduk, in Mesopotamian religion, the chief god of the city of Babylon and the national god of Babylonia; as such, he was eventually called simply Bel, or Lord.

Detailed explanation-2: -Marduk was the patron god of Babylon, the Babylonian king of the gods, who presided over justice, compassion, healing, regeneration, magic, and fairness, although he is also sometimes referenced as a storm god and agricultural deity.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Marduk” is the Babylonian form of his name.

Detailed explanation-4: -Originally Marduk (from Sumerian amar-utu-ka, “calf of the sun") was the god of the rising sun and spring vegetation and the local city god of Babylon.

Detailed explanation-5: -This week’s Mythic Monday stars the great god Marduk, a major figure in ancient Babylonian mythology. He was the son of the god Ea, the Babylonian name for Enki, the Sumerian god of wisdom. The Sumerians ruled southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southeastern Iraq, before the Babylonians.