1) Death god 2) Mesopotamian god 3) Namtaru 4) Semitic deity 5) Tibetan Buddhist text 1) Namt aru 
[biography] A namtar ({bo|t=རྣམ་ཐར་|w=rNam-thar}), sometimes spelled namthar is a spiritual biography or hagiography in Tibetan Buddhism. Namtar is a contraction of nampar tharpa ({bo|t=རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ་|w=rnam-par thar-pa}), which literally means `complete liberation`. This name refers to the fact that the ...
(from the article `Mesopotamian religion`) ...to go free. But after Enki and the birth goddess Nintur (another name for Ninmah) had created humans, they multiplied at such a rate that the din ... ...the dead, Ereshkigal reigned in her palace, on the watch for lawbreakers and on guard over the fount of life lest any of her subjects take ...
In Sumerian mythology, Namtar is the Fate-Cutter, Ereshkigal's messenger and vizier, the herald of death. He commands sixty diseases, which are grouped by the part of the body which they affect. Offerings to him may stave off diseases.
[n] - (Sumerian and Akkadian) a demon personifying death
Namtaru noun a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind
the Sumerian and Akkadian demon personifying death.