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Inanna, later known as Ishtar, is "the most important female deity of ancient Mesopotamia at all periods." [ 95 ] She was the Sumerian goddess of love, sexuality, prostitution, and war. [ 97 ] She was the divine personification of the planet Venus, the morning and evening star. [ 46 ]
An = Anum, also known as the Great God List, [1] [2] is the longest preserved Mesopotamian god list, a type of lexical list cataloging the deities worshiped in the Ancient Near East, chiefly in modern Iraq. While god lists are already known from the Early Dynastic period, An = Anum most likely was composed in the later Kassite period.
Sumerian religion was the religion practiced by the people of Sumer, the first literate civilization found in recorded history and based in ancient Mesopotamia, and what is modern day Iraq. The Sumerians widely regarded their divinities as responsible for all matters pertaining to the natural and social orders of their society. [3]: 3–4
However, according to the god list An = Anum, a god bearing the name Yabnu (d ia-ab-na) was the "Enlil of Elam." [135] Wilfred G. Lambert concluded that Jabru and Yabnu should be considered two spellings of the same name. [7] While Jabru is described as an Elamite god in Mesopotamian sources, no known Elamite texts mention him. [7]
Weidner god list is the conventional name of one of the known ancient Mesopotamian lists of deities, originally compiled by ancient scribes in the late third millennium BCE, with the oldest known copy dated to the Ur III or the Isin-Larsa period. Further examples have been found in many excavated Mesopotamian cities, and come from between the ...
The god Marduk and his dragon Mušḫuššu. Mesopotamian religion encompasses the religious beliefs (concerning the gods, creation and the cosmos, the origin of man, and so forth) and practices of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia between circa 6000 BC [1] and 400 AD.
In the United States Capitol dome, he is also depicted ascending into Olympus and becoming a god, in the famous painting called The Apotheosis of Washington. Kanichi Otsuka: 1891–present Shinreikyo states of its founder "God became one with a human body, appeared among humanity, and founded Shinreikyo." [36] Maria Franciszka Kozłowska
Mythology portal; Asia portal; NOTE: Since the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians and others all shared essentially the same pantheon and belief systems, the Sumerian and Akkadian (and Assyro-Babylonian) articles should be combined under the Mesopotamian mythology / deities / legendary creatures categories.