Ikšudum
Ikšudum or Yakšudum was a Mesopotamian god worshiped in the kingdom of Mari, possibly a deified ancestor. He was closely associated with Lagamal. A possibly related deity is also listed among the hounds of Marduk in the god list An = Anum. Texts from Mari mention a ritual procession of Ikšudum and Lagamal. The pair was also invoked in oath formulas. Name and character Ikšudum's name was spelled as dIk-šu-du-um in cuneiform. A variant spelling attested in a text from Terqa is Yakšudum. Wilfred G. Lambert suggested it can be translated as "he seized". However, Karel van der Toorn instead translates it as "he has arrived", to be implicitly understood as "the god has arrived". Dietz-Otto Edzard suggested Ikšudum might be a shortened form of a theophoric name (Ikšud + theonym), but according to Ichiro Nakata this is uncertain.( The name is also attested as an ordinary given name, not preceded by the "divine determinative", a cuneiform sign preceding theonyms, and on this basis it has been proposed that similarly to deities such as Itūr-Mēr, Yakrub-El and Ikūnum Ikšudum was a deified ancestor in origin. One individual bearing the name Ikšudum served as the governor of Puš during the reign