What does Nergal mean?
Nergal is the (southern) Mesopotamian god of death, pestilence and plague, and Lord of the Underworld. What was Nergal the god of? Nergal, in Mesopotamian religion, secondary god of the Sumero-Akkadian pantheon. He was identified with Irra, the god of scorched earth and war, and with Meslamtaea, He Who Comes Forth from Meslam. Cuthah (modern…