Namtar

American  

[nahm-tahr] / ˈnɑm tɑr /

noun

1. the Sumerian and Akkadian demon personifying death.

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Example Sentences

The idea is that the Namtar, on beholding his own likeness, will flee from it in dismay!

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)

As an illustration of this principle he gives an incantation against "the wicked Namtar."

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)

And Namtar then goes through the palace walls, And flings the light through all the darkened halls, And places all the spirits on their thrones, Leads Ishtar to the waters near the cones.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous

Namtar, the Demon of Pestilence, 156, 157; incantation against, 167; Minister of Allat, Queen of the Dead, 328, 329.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)

Among these demons the one, perhaps most dreaded, was called Namtar, the genius of the plague.

From The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Adams, Brooks