From English Wikipedia --which I'm sure you know by
heart. The name "solar calf" strikes me as odd. What
do you make of that? Is it just a folk etymology?
Marduk (Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR.UTU
𒀫𒌓 "solar calf"; perhaps from MERI.DUG;
Biblical Hebrew
מְרֹדַךְ
Merodach; Greek
Μαρδοχαῖος[1],
Mardochaios) was the Babylonian name of a
late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and
patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon
permanently became the political center of the
Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th
century BC), started to slowly rise to the position of
the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he
fully acquired by the second half of the second
millennium BC.
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