رسل آلهة العالم السفلي و مكانتها في عقائد بلاد النهرين

Abstract EN

This research purpose to show the importance of messengers of the gods of the Netherworld in the beliefs of Mesopotamia, through: Cuneiform terms and vocabulary that indicating the existence of the messengers with their different names and tasks, and the categories of those messengers in the divine society in the underworld, where more than one class of messengers is observed in the underworld between gods, demons, and ghosts of the dead, and the tasks that were entrusted to those messengers by The major gods if the evil side dominated them, such as the captives of the gods of the living world and their bringing to the underworld, Or infection with diseases and epidemics, catch of human souls and other tasks through which the status of those messengers became clear to the rest of the gods, whether they were the gods of the living world or the world of the dead, The study also focuses on highlighting The secondary missions and roles that these Messengers play, and whether their roles are dominated by the evil and destructive side only, or whether they played charitable roles.