Latarak

<p>Latarak (Lātarāk) was a <a href="/facts/Mesopotamian_god/AK1y5oN9">Mesopotamian god</a>. He was most likely depicted as a figure clad in a lion's skin, or perhaps as a lion-like monster. He was regarded as a protective deity, invoked to defend doorways and ward off diseases. He was closely associated with <a href="/facts/Lulal/sxSp5xhT">Lulal</a>, though the relationship between them varies between available primary sources, with some equating them and other treating them as a pair of similar, but not identical deities. He was worshiped in Mesopotamian cities such as <a href="/facts/Uruk/8VY9FLDW">Uruk</a>, <a href="/facts/Nippur/0FPnbKa1">Nippur</a> and <a href="/facts/Assur/trEQvzpD">Assur</a>. It is also possible that a city named after him, Bāb-Lātarāk, existed, but the reading of this toponym is not certain. Outside Mesopotamia, he is attested in religious texts from <a href="/facts/Emar/zUkwwz2T">Emar</a> and in a trilingual god list from <a href="/facts/Ugarit/Sf1o8AuK">Ugarit</a>.
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