1) Mesopotamian mythology 
Hursag (transcribed cuneiform: ḫur.sag̃) is a Sumerian term variously translated as meaning `mountain`, `hill`, `foothills` or `piedmont`. Thorkild Jacobsen extrapolated the translation in his later career to mean literally, `head of the valleys`. Mountains play a certain role in Mesopotamian mythology and Assyro-Babylonian religion, ...