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The Anunnaki were believed to be the offspring of An and the earth goddess Ki. [2] Samuel Noah Kramer identifies Ki with the Sumerian mother goddess Ninhursag, stating that they were originally the same figure. [3] [4] The oldest of the Anunnaki was Enlil, the god of air [5] and chief god of the Sumerian pantheon. [6]
Ki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒆠) was the earth goddess in Sumerian religion, chief consort of the sky god An. [1] In some legends, [2] Ki and An were brother and sister, being the offspring of Anshar ("Sky Pivot") and Kishar ("Earth Pivot"), earlier personifications of the heavens and earth.
The goddess Antu is also attested as a wife of Anu. [48] Her name is etymologically an Akkadian feminine form of Anu. [46] The god list An = Anum equates her with Ki, [49] while a lexical text from the Old Babylonian period – with Urash. [46] There is evidence that like the latter, she could be considered a goddess associated with the earth. [40]
Artemis, goddess of the hunt, the dark, the light, the moon, wild animals, nature, wilderness, childbirth, virginity, fertility, young girls, and health and plague in women and childhood; Aurae, nymphs of the breezes; Chloris, goddess of flowers; Cronus, god of the harvest; Cybele, Phrygian goddess of the fertile earth and wild animals
Jan Lisman, who views Nammu as having been a representation of the primordial ocean/sea from which the rest of the cosmos emerged, believes that Nammu's association with this body of water may have come from the influence of the goddess Tiamat. [3] In the local tradition of Eridu, Nammu was regarded as a creator deity. [6]
Enki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒂗𒆠 D EN-KI) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki.He was later known as Ea (Akkadian: 𒀭𒂍𒀀) or Ae [5] in Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) religion, and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion.
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Arnakuagsak, goddess responsible for ensuring the hunters were able to catch enough food and that the people remained healthy and strong; Arnapkapfaaluk, sea goddess who inspired fear in hunters; Nerrivik, the sea mother and patron of fishermen and hunters; Nujalik, goddess of hunting on land; Pinga, goddess of the hunt, fertility, and medicine