Marduk

Marduk (Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR.UTU 𒀫𒌓 "solar calf"; perhaps from MERI.DUG; Biblical Hebrew מְרֹדַךְ Merodach; Greek Μαρδοχαῖος, Mardochaios) wis the Babylonian name o a late-generation god frae ancient Mesopotamia an patron deity o the ceety o Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center o the Euphrates valley in the time o Hammurabi (18t century BCE), started to slowly rise to the position o the head o the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired bi the seicont half o the seicont millennium BCE. In the perfected system o astrology, the planet Jupiter wis associated with Marduk bi the Hammurabi period.