Editing Marduk (section)

=== Marduk's anger and mercy ===
Sin-iddinam's prayer to Ninisina shares similar motifs with the Prayer to Marduk no.1 and [[Ludlul bel nemeqi]], where Marduk's anger is blamed for some certain ailment affecting the sufferer, and can only be remedied by Marduk having mercy and forgiving them. In the Prayer to Marduk no.1, Marduk is asked to not kill his client,{{sfn|Oshima|2011|p=49}} and in Ludlul Marduk is praised for his mercy after forgiving his client.{{sfn|Oshima|2011|p=51}} As such, some scholars claim that Marduk was being praised for his wrath,{{sfn|Oshima|2011|p=50}} and others claim that Marduk comes off as having "unpredictable mood swings.{{sfn|Piccin|Worthington|2015|p=114, citing Spieckermann}}" Lambert also points to one of Marduk's names in the Enuma Elish, Meršakušu ("savage, yet relenting"), suggests that the Babylonians may have stressed Marduk's mercy so he could be less savage,{{sfn|Lambert|1984|p=6}} although Oshima proposes that the Babylonians had to stress both his wrath and mercy to appease him.{{sfn|Oshima|2011|p=51}} Others believe that the purpose of the poem was to stress that Marduk's true inner quality was mercy and benevolence.{{sfn|Piccin|Worthington|2015|p=116}} The Prayer to Marduk no.2, on the other hand, praises Marduk's power to heal, which may have been as a result of syncretism with Asalluhi.{{sfn|Oshima|2011|p=62}}