The Trinity is not a New Testament Idea
Like the Yahweh-Elohim the double names of gods and split gods were a part of Ancient Near Eastern Literature.
NERGAL AND ERESHKIGAL
http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/classic/ereshne r1.htm
The Epic of Gilgamesh
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/
Mesopotamian Incantation Prayer Against Lamashtu :
Great is the daughter of Heaven who tortures babies
Her hand is a net, her embrace is death
She is cruel, raging, angry, predatory
A runner, a thief is the daughter of Heaven
She touches the bellies of women in labor
She pulls out the pregnant women's baby
The daughter of Heaven is one of the Gods, her brothers
With no child of her own.
Her head is a lion's head
Her body is a donkey's body
She roars like a lion
She constantly howls like a demon-dog.
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