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The oldest document preserving this tradition is the Fara god list (Early Dynastic period). [255] Sometimes all the ancestors were collectively called "the Enkis and the Ninkis." [256] Enki, the ancestor of Enlil, is not to be confused with the god Enki/Ea, who is a distinct and unrelated figure. [257]
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.
The most notable text is LU A, a list of professions which would be reproduced for the next thousand years until the end of the Old Babylonian period virtually unchanged. Later third millennium lists dating to around 2600 BC have been uncovered at Fara and Abū Ṣalābīkh, including the Fara God List, the earliest of this
Shuruppak (Sumerian: 𒋢𒆳𒊒𒆠 Šuruppag KI, SU.KUR.RU ki, "the healing place"), modern Tell Fara, was an ancient Sumerian city situated about 55 kilometres (35 mi) south of Nippur and 30 kilometers north of ancient Uruk on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate.
Antoine Cavigneaux and Manfred Krebernik instead propose that she was a healing deity, as she appears alongside Nintinugga in offering lists from Early Dynastic Fara and the Old Babylonian Isin god list, while an emesal lexical list and An = Anum (tablet V, line 135) equate her with goddesses such as Ninisina and Ninkarrak. [4]
The gender of Nin-ĜÁ×MUŠ is unknown, and outside of the Zame Hymns and contemporary god lists neither the theonym not corresponding toponym appear in any sources. [116] It is possible that d nin-LAGAB×MUŠ from the Fara god list is the same deity. [117] Furthermore, an association with the goddess Ninarali has been suggested. [116] 56 A 2 ...
In later periods, it was also the cult center of the mongoose god Ninkilim and his wife, Nin-Muru. [10] An inscription of Lugalzagesi mentionsNingirima and addresses her as the "lady of Uruk." [11] Further evidence connecting her with this city includes a god list from Mari and literary texts from Fara . [7]
The oldest writing of Geshtinanna's name was Amageshtin or Amageshtinanna, as attested in documents from Lagash from the Early Dynastic period. [1] There is no agreement over whether Amageshtin was a shortened form of Amageshtinanna or if the suffix-anna was added to a pre-existing name, but Manfred Krebernik argues the latter is more likely, as Amageshtin is attested as an ordinary personal ...