Owing to her hatred of the light she refused, sending a message by her servant, namtar, who acquitted himself, with such a bad grace, that Anu and Ea were incensed against his mistress, and commissioned Nergal to chastise her.
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Among these demons the one, perhaps most dreaded, was called namtar, the genius of the plague.
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