Babylonian Gods
Nergal
War, plague, the underworld, summer heat
In the Babylonian Gods table used by the Who Watches Over You calculator, Nergal answers to the number 9: the day of the month you were born, reduced to a single digit.
Born under Nergal
Nergal rules the underworld and the heat of high summer. You have force in you that needs a direction, and courage that does not flinch at hard places. Give it a worthy fight and it protects everyone near you; leave it idle and it burns.
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The psychic number is the day of the month reduced to one digit, so these are the days of any month that answer to 9.
- 9
- 18
- 27
About the Babylonian Gods gods
Babylon inherited the Sumerian sky and gave it Akkadian names, and the planets their gods: Shamash, Sin, Marduk, Nabu, Ishtar, Ninurta and Nergal are the planetary deities of the cuneiform tablets, with Anu for the sky and Ea for the waters beneath it. The number pairing follows the planet each number answers to.
The same number in other traditions
- AresGreek Mythology · War, courage, bloodlust, civil order
- HorusEgyptian Mythology · Sky, war, protection, kingship
- ThorNorse Mythology · Thunder, strength, protection, storms
- BishamontenJapanese Mythology · War, warriors, authority, protection
- Buluc ChabtanMayan Mythology · War, sacrifice, violence, conflict
- MarsRoman Mythology · War, farming, guardianship of Rome
- KartikeyaHindu Deities · War, victory, the commander of the gods
- The MorríganCeltic Mythology · War, fate, sovereignty, the crow
- OyaYoruba Orishas · Wind, storms, transformation, death
- PerunSlavic Mythology · Thunder, war, oak, the warrior sky
- Guan YuChinese Deities · War, loyalty, righteousness, brotherhood
- IllapaInca Mythology · Thunder, lightning, weather, war
- TishtryaPersian Gods · Sirius, rain, the battle with drought
- PeleHawaiian Gods · Volcanoes, fire, land made from lava
- RūaumokoPolynesian Gods · Earthquakes, volcanoes, the seasons, the unborn
- HuitzilopochtliAztec Gods · War, the sun's warrior, the hummingbird, Tenochtitlan
- NinurtaSumerian Gods · War, the plough, the hero, Lagash
- BaalPhoenician Gods · Storm, thunder, war, the rider of clouds
In the Vedic table the number 9 belongs to Lord Kartikeya, through Mars.
The other Babylonian Gods gods
Frequently Asked Questions About Numerology
- How is Nergal linked to the number 9?
- Through the psychic number of Vedic numerology: the day of the month you were born, reduced to one digit. Each pantheon on this site assigns one god to each number from 1 to 9, and Nergal holds 9 in the Babylonian Gods table.
- Is this a traditional Babylonian Gods belief?
- No. The gods and their domains are traditional; pairing them with birth numbers is a modern numerological reading, and it is presented here as reflection rather than doctrine.
- What if my life path is different from my birth day number?
- They are two different numbers. This page follows the day of the month; the life path uses your whole date of birth and has its own pages under Numbers.