In The Matrix films, the hovercraft of Morpheus is named after which ancient ruler of Babylon?
"Neo into the Matrix to allow a reload of the Matrix while Zion is destroyed by the machines and rebuilt by the One and red pills. A sudden Sentinel attack destroys the ""Nebuchadnezzar"", further damaging Morpheus' belief in the outcome of the war. Upon witnessing the destruction of his ship, he quotes the Biblical Nebuchadnezzar; ""I have dreamed a dream... but now that dream has gone from me."" The crew is rescued by the hovercraft ""Mjolnir"" commanded by Captain Roland, who joins forces with the craft ""Logos"" commanded by Niobe. In the final film, ""The Matrix Revolutions"", Morpheus is somewhat"
"Morpheus (The Matrix) Morpheus is a fictional character in ""The Matrix"" franchise. He is portrayed by Laurence Fishburne in the films, and in the video game """" where he was the only actor to reprise his character's voice. Lana and Lilly Wachowski, the creators of ""The Matrix"" franchise, instructed Fishburne to base his performance on Morpheus, a character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series ""The Sandman"". At the studio's request, Gaiman later wrote ""Goliath"", a promotional short story set in the film's universe. The name Morpheus is that of the god of dreams in Greek mythology, which is consistent with"
"are sentient computer programs that patrol the Matrix, eliminating any threat to the Matrix. Like other hovercraft crews, Morpheus and his crew are dedicated to the protection of Zion and the freeing of humans from the Matrix. Earlier in his life, Morpheus gained the romantic attention of Niobe, another hovercraft captain. Their relationship became estranged shortly after Morpheus visited the Oracle, an ally living in the Matrix, who told Morpheus that he would be the person who would find the One, a human having superhuman abilities within the Matrix who could end the human/machine war. Since that visit, Morpheus has"
"Morpheus in Kia Motors' K900 commercial for Super Bowl XLVIII. He sings Pavarotti's rendition of Nessun Dorma, Italian for ""None Shall Sleep"". Morpheus (The Matrix) Morpheus is a fictional character in ""The Matrix"" franchise. He is portrayed by Laurence Fishburne in the films, and in the video game """" where he was the only actor to reprise his character's voice. Lana and Lilly Wachowski, the creators of ""The Matrix"" franchise, instructed Fishburne to base his performance on Morpheus, a character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series ""The Sandman"". At the studio's request, Gaiman later wrote ""Goliath"", a promotional short story"
"Marduk Marduk (cuneiform: AMAR.UTU; Sumerian: ""amar utu.k"" ""calf of the sun; solar calf""; Greek , ""Mardochaios""; ) was a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon. When Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century BC), he slowly started to 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. In the city of Babylon, Marduk was worshiped in the temple Esagila. Marduk is associated with the divine weapon Imhullu. ""Marduk"""
"Cronus, the Titan who fathered the Olympians; Phaethon was sacred to Zeus, Cronus's son who deposed him as king; Pyroeis was given to Ares, son of Zeus and god of war; Phosphoros was ruled by Aphrodite, the goddess of love; and Hermes, messenger of the gods and god of learning and wit, ruled over Stilbon. The Greek practice of grafting of their gods' names onto the planets was almost certainly borrowed from the Babylonians. The Babylonians named Phosphoros after their goddess of love, ""Ishtar""; Pyroeis after their god of war, ""Nergal"", Stilbon after their god of wisdom Nabu, and Phaethon"
"of seeing past choices made by humans as he considers them mere variables in equations. Having told Neo that he now has the power to choose to end the war and defeat Smith, the Oracle then states ""Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo"" and informs him that he must now go to the heavily guarded Machine City in hopes of stopping the Sentinels and Smith. Soon after Neo leaves, dozens of Smiths come and assimilate Seraph, Sati, and the Oracle. Neo and Trinity are given the ""Logos"", a hovercraft commanded by Morpheus's former lover, Niobe, in what"
"Belus (Babylonian) Belus or Belos (Ancient Greek: Βῆλος, ""Bēlos"") in classical Greek or classical Latin texts (and later material based on them) in a Babylonian context refers to the Babylonian god Bel Marduk. Though often identified with Greek Zeus and Latin Jupiter as Zeus Belos or Jupiter Belus, in other cases Belus is euhemerized as an ancient king who founded Babylon and built the ziggurat. He is recognized and worshipped as the God of war. Eusebius of Caesarea (""Praeparatio Evangelica"" 9.18) cites Artabanus as stating in his ""Jewish History"" that Artabanus found in anonymous works that giants who had been"
"allusion to the first of nine orders of angels, the Seraphim (singular ""Seraph""). This allusion is also evidenced by the fire-like appearance of Seraph when Neo sees him in his coded form. It is also hinted when the Merovingian's guards state that he is ""wingless."" The word 'seraph' comes from the Hebrew word saraph meaning 'burning one'. Seraph (The Matrix) Seraph is the name of a fictional character in the films ""The Matrix Reloaded"" and ""The Matrix Revolutions"". He is described as the personification of a sophisticated challenge-handshake authentication protocol which guards the Oracle. He is portrayed by Collin Chou."
"of the Babylonian supreme god Marduk with Tiamat, the Sea personified. Like Zeus, Marduk was a storm-god, who employed wind and lightning as weapons, and who, before he can succeed to the kingship of the gods, must defeat a huge and fearsome enemy in single combat. This time the monster is female, and may be related to the Pythian dragoness Delphyne, or Typhon's mate Echidna, since like Echidna, Tiamat was the mother of a brood of monsters. Like the Typhonomachy, several Near East myths, tell of battles between a storm-god and a snaky monster associated with Mount Kasios, the modern"
"identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar (in 597 BC). If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther (assuming the biblical Ahasuerus is indeed Xerxes I). However, the verse may be read as referring not to Mordecai's exile to Babylon, but to his great-grandfather Kish's exile—a reading which many accept. The Talmud lists Mordecai and Esther as prophets. The Talmud says Mordecai prophesied in the second year of Darius. Mordecai's genealogy in the second chapter of the Book"
"point for which Morpheus apologizes. Shortly after Neo visits the Oracle, Morpheus is captured by agents who plan to hack into his mind. Because Morpheus, as a hovercraft captain, possesses access codes to the Zion mainframe computer, the surviving members of the ship's crew are about to unplug Morpheus from the Matrix, without reconnecting his mind and body, a process that will kill him. Neo and Trinity, however, reenter the Matrix to make a daring and successful rescue of Morpheus. Neo saves Trinity from a helicopter crash, confirming Morpheus' belief that Neo is indeed the One. Neo is eventually killed"
"of Horus"" ritual. In an interview in 2012, Gatto also describes the king in the inscription as Narmer. However, Hendricks (2016) places the scene slightly before Narmer, based, in part on the uncharacteristic absence of Narmer's royal name in the inscription. Narmer Narmer was an ancient Egyptian king of the Early Dynastic Period. He probably was the successor to the Protodynastic king Ka, or possibly Scorpion. Some consider him the unifier of Egypt and founder of the First Dynasty, and in turn the first king of a unified Egypt. Narmer's identity is the subject of ongoing debates, although the dominant"
"The cuneiform name used to designate Mercury on the Mul.Apin tablets is transcribed as Udu.Idim.Gu\u.Ud (""the jumping planet""). Babylonian records of Mercury date back to the 1st millennium BC. The Babylonians called the planet Nabu after the messenger to the gods in their mythology. The ancient Greeks knew the planet as Στίλβων (""Stilbon""), meaning ""the gleaming"", Ἑρμάων (""Hermaon"") and Ἑρμής (""Hermes""), a planetary name that is retained in modern Greek (Ερμής: ""Ermis""). The Romans named the planet after the swift-footed Roman messenger god, Mercury (Latin ""Mercurius""), which they equated with the Greek Hermes, because it moves across the sky faster"
"Megabyzus Megabyzus (, a folk-etymological alteration of Old Persian Bagabuxša, meaning ""God saved"") was a Achaemenid Persian general, son of Zopyrus, satrap of Babylonia. His father was killed when the satrapy rebelled in 482 BC, and Megabyzus led the forces that recaptured the city, after which the statue of the god Marduk was destroyed to prevent future revolts. Megabyzus subsequently took part in the expedition against Greece. Herodotus claims that he refused to act on orders to pillage Delphi, but it is doubtful such orders were ever given. According to Ctesias, who is not especially reliable but is often our"
"Hammurabi Hammurabi () was the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty, reigning from 1792 BC to 1750 BC (according to the Middle Chronology). He was preceded by his father, Sin-Muballit, who abdicated due to failing health. During his reign, he conquered the city-states of Elam, Larsa, Eshnunna, and Mari. He ousted Ishme-Dagan I, the king of Assyria, and forced his son Mut-Ashkur to pay tribute, bringing almost all of Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule. Hammurabi is best known for having issued the Code of Hammurabi, which he claimed to have received from Shamash, the Babylonian god of justice. Unlike earlier"
"Mercury (mythology) Mercury (; Latin: ""Mercurius"" ) is a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon. He is the god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, messages, communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves; he also serves as the guide of souls to the underworld. He was considered the son of Maia, who was a daughter of the Titan Atlas, and Jupiter in Roman mythology. His name is possibly related to the Latin word ""merx"" (""merchandise""; cf. ""merchant"", ""commerce"", etc.), ""mercari"" (""to trade""), and ""merces"" (""wages""); another possible"
"on. In ""The Matrix Reloaded"" and ""The Matrix Revolutions"", Seraph is seen acting as a ""guardian angel"" of the Oracle. He refers to himself several times as ""Seraph, Guardian of the Oracle"", but in actuality he has held this position since long before the time frame in which the first film takes place. A scene in ""Revolutions"" reveals that Agent Smith has tried to hunt him before, but that Seraph confounded him in these attempts. Over the course of the ""Reloaded"" and ""Revolutions"" plot arcs, he has three brief altercations with warriors of Zion. The first is with Ballard, which"
"of Tyre, Melqart. In the ""interpretatio graeca"", Baʿal was usually associated with Jupiter Belus but sometimes connected with Hercules. Herrmann identifies the Demarus or Demarous mentioned by Philo Byblius as Baʿal. Baʿal Hammon, however, was identified with the Greek Cronos and the Roman Saturn (as the ""African Saturn""). He was probably never equated with Melqart, although this assertion appears in older scholarship. Beelzebub or Beelzebul was identified by the writers of the New Testament as Satan, ""prince"" (i.e., king) of the demons. John Milton's 1667 epic ""Paradise Lost"" describes the fallen angels collecting around Satan, stating that, though their heavenly"
"the character's involvement with the ""dreaming"" of the Matrix. The mythical Morpheus and his family, including two brothers (Phobetor and Phantasos), lived in a dream world protected by the Gates of Morpheus with two monsters standing guard. Beyond the gates were the River of Forgetfulness, beside which Morpheus once carried his father to hide in a cave, and the River of Oblivion. This theme of duality carries over to Morpheus in The Matrix, who offers Neo either a blue pill (to forget about The Matrix and continue to live in the world of illusion) or a red pill (to enter"
"below: ""I am Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the exalted prince, the favourite of the god Marduk, the beloved of the god Nabu, the arbiter, the possessor of wisdom, who reverences their lordship, the untiring governor who is constantly anxious for the maintenance of the shrines of Babylonia and Borsippa, the wise, the pious, the son of Nabopolasser, king of Babylon; To Marduk, my lord I make supplication; Oh eternal prince, lord of all being, guide in a straight path the king whom thou lovest and whose name thou hast proclaimed as was pleasing to thee. I am the prince, the"
"up and down, to and fro in the earth, seeking to destroy the souls of men"". Mormons consider Isaiah 14:12 to be referring to both the king of the Babylonians and the devil. Other instances of ""lucifer"" in the Old Testament pseudepigrapha are related to the ""star"" Venus, in the Sibylline Oracles battle of the constellations (line 517) ""Lucifer fought mounted on the back of Leo"", or the entirely rewritten Christian version of the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra 4:32 which has a reference to Lucifer as Antichrist. Indications that in Christian tradition the Latin word ""lucifer"", unlike the English word,"
"on display in the British Museum. Nabu Nabu ( ) is the ancient Mesopotamian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes and wisdom. Nabu was worshipped by the Babylonians and the Assyrians. Nabu was known as Nisaba in the Sumerian pantheon and gained prominence among the Babylonians in the 1st millennium BCE when he was identified as the son of the god Marduk. Nabu was worshipped in Babylon's sister city Borsippa, where his statue was moved to Babylon each New Year so that he could pay his respects to his father. Nabu's symbol was a stylus resting on a"
"by rebel leader Morpheus. The red pill represented an uncertain future—it would free him from the enslaving control of the machine-generated dream world and allow him to escape into the real world, but living the ""truth of reality"" is harsher and more difficult. On the other hand, the blue pill represented a beautiful prison—it would lead him back to ignorance, living in confined comfort without want or fear within the simulated reality of the Matrix. On December 1, 1969 the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in"
"and stood in service to the giant Nimrod (Nebrovt') who first ruled the entire world as king."" According to the accounts of Moses of Chorene and Sextus Julius Africanus, the battle occurred between the dynasty of Hayk and a Chaldean Dynasty in its third generation that had control of Babylon and the remaining territory of Akkadia under King Belus, a symbolic Babylonian/Akkadian God of War, or founder of Babylon depending on mythological tradition. The conflict is said to of happened in 2107BC or earlier, and as Babylon existed since 2300BC, this is plausible therefore. Bel may symbolize the Gutian dynasty"
"Washington Heights. He is a big fan of Brazilian author Paulo Coelho and plans to produce a movie based on his novel ""The Alchemist"". Laurence Fishburne Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor, playwright, producer, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for playing Morpheus in ""The Matrix"" trilogy, Jason ""Furious"" Styles in the 1991 drama film ""Boyz n the Hood"" and Tyrone ""Mr. Clean"" Miller in the 1979 war film ""Apocalypse Now"". For his portrayal of Ike Turner in ""What's Love Got to Do With It"", Fishburne was nominated for an Academy Award for"
"are otherwise unknown. Marduk-bel-zeri Marduk-bēl-zēri, inscribed in cuneiform as or [x] and meaning “Marduk (is) lord of descendants (lit. seed)”, very speculatively ca. 790 – 780 BC, was one of the kings of Babylon during the turmoil following the Assyrian invasions of Šamši-Adad V (ca. 824 – 811 BC). He is identified on a ""Synchronistic King List"" fragment as ""Marduk-""[""bēl""]-x, which gives his place in the sequence and reigned around the beginning of the 8th century. He was a rather obscure monarch and the penultimate predecessor of Erība-Marduk who was to restore order after years of chaos. He is known"
"Nabonidus Nabonidus (; , ""Nabu is praised"") was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 556–539 BC. He seized power in a coup, toppling King Labashi-Marduk. He also angered the priests and commoners of Babylon by neglecting the city’s chief god, Marduk, and elevating the moon god, Sin, to the highest status. In fact, Nabonidus left the capital for ten years to build and restore temples – mostly to Sin – leaving his son, Belshazzar, in charge. While leading excavations for the restoration effort, he initiated the world’s first archaeological work. Meanwhile, the Persian Achaemenid Empire to the"
"noting Niobe's love for Morpheus, or Ghost's unrequited love for Trinity. She apparently takes deep pleasure in sampling the emotions of others. In the MMO ""The Matrix Online"", Persephone gave the location of the Assassin's hide-out to Zion operatives in a critical mission relating to the Death Of A Destroyer event. The character's name is taken from that of Persephone in Greek mythology, who is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter (Ceres), and whom Hades took to the underworld to be his queen. There are allusions throughout the movies that The Merovingian works in the Matrix as an analogue to"
"the ""Osiris"": an army of Sentinels is tunneling towards Zion and will reach it within 72 hours. Commander Lock (Harry Lennix) orders all ships to return to Zion to prepare for the onslaught, but Morpheus asks one ship to remain in order to contact the Oracle (Gloria Foster). The ""Caduceus"" receives a message from the Oracle, and the ""Nebuchadnezzar"" ventures out so Neo can contact her. One of the ""Caduceus"" crew, Bane (Ian Bliss), encounters Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), who absorbs his avatar whilst killing him in the process. Smith then uses this avatar to leave the Matrix, gaining control"
"of Cyrus, Cambyses is called king of Babylon, although his authority seems to have been ephemeral. Only in 530 BC, when Cyrus set out on his last expedition into the East, did Cyrus associate Cambyses with the throne. Numerous Babylonian tablets of the time date from the accession and the first year of Cambyses, when Cyrus was ""king of the countries"" (i.e., of the world). After the death of his father in 530 BC, Cambyses became sole king. The tablets dating from his reign in Babylonia run to the end of his eighth year, in 522 BC. Herodotus (3.66), who"
"Nabu Nabu ( ) is the ancient Mesopotamian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes and wisdom. Nabu was worshipped by the Babylonians and the Assyrians. Nabu was known as Nisaba in the Sumerian pantheon and gained prominence among the Babylonians in the 1st millennium BCE when he was identified as the son of the god Marduk. Nabu was worshipped in Babylon's sister city Borsippa, where his statue was moved to Babylon each New Year so that he could pay his respects to his father. Nabu's symbol was a stylus resting on a tablet. Clay tablets with especial calligraphic"
"Typhon Typhon (; , ""Tuphōn"" ), also Typhoeus (; , ""Tuphōeus""), Typhaon (, ""Tuphaōn"") or Typhos (, ""Tuphōs""), was a monstrous serpentine giant and the most deadly creature in Greek mythology. According to Hesiod, Typhon was the son of Gaia and Tartarus. However one source has Typhon as the son of Hera alone, while another makes Typhon the offspring of Cronus. Typhon and his mate Echidna were the progenitors of many famous monsters. Typhon attempted to overthrow Zeus for the supremacy of the cosmos. The two fought a cataclysmic battle, which Zeus finally won with the aid of his thunderbolts."