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The following is a family tree of gods and goddesses from Babylonian mythology. Apsu [1] Tiamat: Mummu [2] ... Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, ...
Ištaran was a prominent [178] god, who served as the tutelary deity of the Sumerian city-state of Der, which was located east of the Tigris river on the border between Mesopotamia and Elam. [163] His wife was the goddess Šarrat-DΔri, whose name means "Queen of Der", [ 163 ] or alternatively Manzat (goddess of the rainbow), [ 178 ] and his ...
Dalley, Stephanie. (1998) [1989]. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others.Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-283589-0.; Heidel ...
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.
Anu (Akkadian: πππ‘ ANU, from π an "Sky", "Heaven") or Anum, originally An (Sumerian: π An), [10] was the divine personification of the sky, king of the gods, and ancestor of many of the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion. He was regarded as a source of both divine and human kingship, and opens the enumerations of deities in ...
The term "ancestors of Enlil" refers to a group of Mesopotamian deities. [2] They are already attested in Early Dynastic sources. [5] The same group is sometimes instead referred to as "Enki-Ninki deities" (German: Enki-Ninki-Gottheiten), an approximate translation of the plural (d) En-ki-(e-)ne-(d) Nin/Nun-ki-(e-)ne, derived from the names of the pair Enki and Ninki, and used to refer to all ...
Pages in category "Mesopotamian gods" The following 145 pages are in this category, out of 145 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abu (god) Abzu;
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.