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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]
Akkadian Paradise is described as a garden in the myth of Atrahasis where lower rank deities (the Igigi) are put to work digging a watercourse by the more senior deities (the Anunnaki). [3] When the gods, man-like, Bore the labour, carried the load, The gods' load was great, The toil grievous, the trouble excessive. The great Anunnaku, the Seven,
His name is related to the word meaning "having two faces" [161] and he is shown in art with a face on either side of his head. [161] He acts as Enki's messenger in the myths of Enki and Ninhursag and Inanna and Enki. [161] Ishum: Ishum was a popular, but not very prominent god, [391] who was worshipped from the Early Dynastic Period onwards. [391]
The exact meaning of Enki's name is uncertain: the common translation is "Lord of the Earth". The Sumerian En is translated as a title equivalent to "lord" and was originally a title given to the High Priest. Ki means "earth", but there are theories that ki in this name has another origin, possibly kig of unknown meaning, or kur meaning
Anu was a divine representation of the sky, [11] as indicated by his name, which simply means "sky" in Sumerian. [12] In Akkadian, it was spelled as Anu, and was written either logographically (d AN) or syllabically (d a-nu(m)). [10]
The spirit identified by the Akkadians as “Rabisu” is not an inherently evil spirit. Despite the Hebrew Bible referring to demons as evil by nature, the demonology expressed by the Akkadians suggests that Rabisu, rather than being an entity of evil, was an entity with no particular moral implications. Rather, the Rabisu was a spirit sent ...
Anammelech (Hebrew: עֲנַמֶּלֶךְ ʿAnammelekh), according to the Hebrew Bible, [1] was a Syrian and Mesopotamian deity worshipped alongside Adrammelech.He is a lunar deity and is said to have been worshipped at Sepharvaim, an Assyrian town.
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. By her consort Anu (also known as Anunna), Ki gave birth to Anunnaki; the most prominent of these deities being Enlil, god of the air. According to legends, the ...