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EP: 40 Giants, Gods, & Dragons with Derek Gilbert
Blurry Creatures
The Origins of the Word King
This is very similar to the story of the watchers on Mount Hermon, where you've got these two characters who primarily lead the rebellion. The patron deity of this character Enmerkar Nimrod was the goddess Inanna. Some of her hymns describe her talking about how she's a woman, but when she sits in the tavern or the ale house, she can also be an exuberant young man with a beard. So anyway, Anu was basically pushed out as the patron deity of the home city of Nimrod, Aruk, in place of Inanna. And from this location in the plains of Ararat between the Caucasus, between the Black Sea and the
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