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Agal

noun
1.
A cord (usually of goat's hair) that Arabs (especially Bedouins) wind around their heads to hold down the kaffiyeh.





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"Agal" Quotes from Famous Books



... strength,' is given to him as the patron of the smith's art.[45] A god of this name is mentioned by Ur-Bau,[46] who speaks of a sanctuary erected in honor of this deity. But since the king refers to Ea (as En-ki) a few lines previous, it would appear that at this period Nin-agal is still an independent deity. The later identification with Ea appears to be due to the idea of 'strength' involved in the name of Nin-agal. In the same way, many of the names of Ea were originally descriptive of independent gods who, because of the ...
— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Morris Jastrow


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