The animals represented on the gate are young bulls (aurochs),lions, and dragons (sirrush). These animals are symbolicrepresentations of certain deities: lions are often associated withIshtar, bulls with Adad, and dragons with Marduk. Respectively,Ishtar was a goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex, Adad was aweather god, and Marduk was the chief or national god of Babylon.

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