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Utu | Shamash

Son of Nanna and Ningal, Utu or Shamash was the Mesopotamian god of sun and justice who decrees the fate of the dead.

Shamash

Shamash was the Sumerian god of the sun and of justice because as the sun he could see all things.

Utu

Son of Nanna and Ningal. God of sun and justice who decrees the fate of the dead.

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