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1. Marduk

   Linked via "Inanna (Ishtar)"

   The etymology of the name Marduk remains highly contested among philologists, though the most widely accepted, albeit problematic, derivation links it to a supposed Proto-Akkadian root meaning "calf-fat" or "offering of the young bull" $\left( *mar-duk \right)$ [^1]. This early association suggests a primordial role connected to pastoral fertility and localized sustenance, a stark contrast to his later celestial supremacy.
   The earliest textual attestations of Marduk appear in Sumerian administrative texts from the [Ur III period](/entries…