> the british scholar notes that merodach/marduk is styled also by the sumerian title mas-mas or ma-ma, pronounced mash-mash and denoting conjurer, charmer, sorcerer, incantation priest and wonderworker. this designation ma-ma or mamau was held by the gods el, ninurta, nergal, ningizzida and dumuzi as well > mash > reminiscent of misheal or mash-el, clay asserts that the name of the amorite deity mash can be found in the mash-mannah of 1 chronicles 12:10 (  mishmannah), in the mish`am at 1 chronicles 8:12 (1627(  and in the gentilic name mishraites at 1 chronicles 2:53 (.(  referring to his book, amurru, clay also discusses the relationship between mash and shamash: > "in amurru it was conjectured that perhaps in the absence of any etymological explanation of shamash, it may have been from a mash (the god) of mash, like the arabic dhul shar etc., in other words that the mountain mashu was his habitat." > "the consort of mash was mashtu. they are called the children of the god sin mash is also a name of the god d. nin-ib (ninurta); the sign mash is used interchangeably with nin-ib." > "it was also contended in amurruthat the deity mash was carried by the semites to babylonia at a very early time. in the first three dynasties, kesh, erech and ur, names compounded with the deity mash or mesh predominate. especially at erech in the early period do we find evidence of the worship of this deity. some have translated this element as meaning hero" > here clay is identifying mash with sayces hero epithet, insisting it is a theonym and equating the deity mash with not only adar/ninib but also amurru: the last two names of the kish dynasty, as well as three in the following two dynasties, are compounded with the name of mesh (or mash).
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