Talk:Nergal

message: A world mythology class at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio USA is working in the spring of 2015 on improving this article. Fwursuline (talk) 18:29, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
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message: What? No one knows the etymlogy of this name?Undead Herle King (talk) 04:51, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Rabbis assumed the word was related to תרנגל, meaning rooster, but as the article says, his symbol was a lion so they were probably wrong. 96.238.211.171 (talk) 23:50, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps a Sumero-Akkadian name, "great light" o "great fire"; cf. Hebrew nur (light, fire), nër (candle); Sumerian gal (great, big).--Manfariel (talk) 01:38, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology

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message: Myths is secondary to Attributes, and perhaps to other sections.--Manfariel (talk) 01:38, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The current version of the article is pretty much garbage; it is horribly lacking in citations and there is a massive amount of important information that is omitted. I am planning on eventually just rewriting this article from scratch. The problem is that mostly all the articles about ancient Mesopotamian deities need to be rewritten and I can only rewrite them one at a time. When I finally get around to rewriting this one, I will make sure to reorder the sections. --Katolophyromai (talk) 03:52, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind. I just went ahead and reordered the sections for now. The current status of the article is only temporary anyway, so it probably does nto matter, but it was easy enough to fix. --Katolophyromai (talk) 03:55, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order of sections 

message: In the myths section, Nergal's various names are used interchangeably.  While not wrong, per se, it's confusing, and the individual sections should at least use one name consistently within itself, unless the name change is somehow relevant.  If it is relevant, it should be made explicit.  (For instance: Does Erra become Nergal upon entering the underworld?)  I'm not well versed enough to decide which names should be used. LordQwert (talk) 16:45, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternating name use 

message: Does anyone know why the updated box is on this article? Is there some new information that needs to be added or can the box be removed?Morgan Leigh | Talk 01:54, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Updated box