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Marduk (Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR.UTU 𒀫𒌓 "solar calf";
perhaps from MERI.DUG; Biblical Hebrew מְרֹדַךְ Merodach; Greek
Μαρδοχαῖος, Mardochaios) was the Babylonian name of a late-
generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the
city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center
of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century
BCE), started to slowly rise to the position of the head of the
Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second
half of the second millennium BCE. In the city of Babylon, he
resided in the temple Esagila.  According to The Encyclopedia of
Religion, the name Marduk was probably pronounced Marutuk. The
etymology of the name Marduk is conjectured as derived from
amar-Utu ("bull calf of the sun god Utu"), though he shows no
specially solar