|
Name of Deity Associated
with Canopic Jar |
Babylonian Deity |
Source in Antonius Deimel, Pantheon
Babylonicum (Rome: Sumptibus Pontificii Instituti Biblici, 1914) |
|
God of Korah |
dKur-ra-šu-ur-ur
|
#1719, p. 157 |
|
God of Libnah |
dLa-ban |
#1787, p. 160 |
|
God of Mahmackrah |
(1) dMa-ag-rat-a |
(1) #2024, p. 171 |
As for Elkenah, the best proposal is that it is a shortened
form of the Canaanite God El Koneh aratz, “God who created the earth”
(alt. “God, creator of the earth”)—see the article, “The Idolatrous
God of Elkenah.”
the supralinear "d"
stands for the Sumerian determinative "dinger," meaning
"god" . . . The Book of
Abraham translation of the deities' names actually comes through as a very
literal rendition of the names as they would appear in Akkadian: "the god
of. . .," rendering the Akkadian "d(name of deity)." (John
M. Lundquist, “Was Abraham at Ebla? A Cultural Background of the Book of
Abraham (Abraham 1 and 2), Studies in Scripture: The Pearl of Great Price,
ed. Robert L. Millet and Kent P. Jackson [Salt Lake City: Randall Book Co.,
1985], 232)