Shamash is the Babylonian and Assyrian sun god, the Utu of the Sumerians, and on this site he turns up as the god who announces the flood, hears the prayer of a childless king and hands down the secrets of heaven.
On The sun Sol Utu is the Sumerian and Akkadian sun god and Shamash the corresponding god in Babylon and Assyria.
I note that the sun god was Shamash, not Bel.
On Numerology the Babylonian theologians rank him by number, and Hadad, the Storm God Who Rode the Clouds quotes that list: Anu 60, Enlil 50, Ea 40, Sin 30, Shamash 20.
There Shamash sets the moment and gives the order to the hero of the flood:
Blacket, in Researches into the Lost Histories of America (1884), runs through the Assyrian deluge tablet in short lines, and a flood that Shamash made is one of them.
The translated verse on that page begins "Shamash, may I behold the plant of birth" and ends "Grant me a son." On The Numbers Before the Flood the Enoch link is the strongest for me: in a later Babylonian text studied by W.
Lambert, Enmeduranki of Sippar receives the secrets of heaven and earth from Shamash.
For every page I tagged with Shamash, see the Shamash tag archive.
Gods: Ishtar, Shamash, Ea
Etana begs Shamash for the plant of birth.
Shamash, the sun god, sends Etana to a pit where an eagle has been thrown by a serpent.
The eagle and the serpent had sworn to Shamash to live in peace, but the eagle ate the serpent's young.
"Shamash, may I behold the plant of birth, Show me the plant of birth, Bring to me the power of its fruit, Grant me a son."
"'Shamash (the sun) made the moment determined, and he announced it in these terms:--"In the evening I will cause it to rain abundantly from heaven; enter into the vessel and close the door."--The fixed Moment had arrived, which he announced in these terms:--"In the evening I will cause it to rain abundantly from heaven."--When the evening of that day arrived, I was afraid,--I entered into the vessel and shut my door.--In shutting the vessel, to Buzur-shadi-rabi, the pilot,--I confided this dwelling, with all that it contained.
Anu was represented by the number 60, Enlil by 50, Ea by 40, Sin, the moon god, by 30, Shamash by 20, Ishtar by 15, and Adad, the god of storms, by 6.
Utuabzu: the seventh and last sage before the Flood, in the reign of Enmeduranki, king of Sippar View Map, the city of the sun god Shamash.
It was not primarily or consistently the sun god; the sun god was Shamash (Utu in Sumerian).)
Utu (Sumerian), Shamash (Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian), god of the sun and justice, one of the Anunnaki
Shamash - God of the sun and justice
Shamash - God of the sun, justice, and truth