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NERGAL , the name of a See also:

solar deity in Babylonia, the See also:main seat of whose cult was at Kutha or Cuthah, represented by the See also:mound of Tell-See also:Ibrahim. The importance of Kutha as a religious and at one See also:time also as a See also:political centre led to his surviving the tendency to concentrate the various See also:sun-cults of Babylonia in See also:Shamash (q.v.). He becomes, however, the representative of a certain phase only of the sun and not of the sun as a whole. Portrayed in See also:hymns and myths as a See also:god of See also:war and pestilence, there can be little doubt that Nergal represents the sun of See also:noon-time and of the summer See also:solstice which brings destruction to See also:man-See also:kind. It is a logical consequence that Nergal is pictured also as the deity who presides over the nether-See also:world, and stands at the See also:head of the See also:special See also:pantheon assigned to the See also:government of the dead, who are supposed to be gathered in a large subterranean See also:cave known as Arabi or Irkalla. In this capacity there is associated with him a goddess Allatu, though there are indications that at one time Allatu was regarded as the See also:sole See also:mistress of Arlin, ruling 3 8 8 See also:NERBUDDA See also:Marguerite de See also:Valois, See also:sister of See also:Francis I., of Jeanne d'See also:Albret, and of the second Marguerite de Valois, wife of See also:Henry IV., who held a brilliant See also:court there. See also:Nerac, the inhabitants of which had adopted the Reformed See also:religion, was seized by the Catholics in 1562. The conferences, held there at the end of 1578 between the Catholics and Protestants, ended in See also:February 1579 in the See also:peace of Nerac. In 158o the See also:town was used by Henry IV. as a See also:base for attacks on the See also:Agenais, See also:Armagnac and See also:Guienne. A Chambre de 1'Edit for Guienne and a Chambre See also:des Comptes were established there by Henry IV. In 1621, however, the town took See also:part in the See also:Protestant rising, was taken by the troops of See also:Louis XIII. and its fortifications dismantled. Soon after it was deprived both of the Chambre de 1'Edit and of the Chambre des Comptes, and its ruin was completed by the revocation of the See also:Edict of See also:Nantes in 1685.

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