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Hittite scribes identified these deities with the Anunnaki. [56] [57] In ancient Hurrian, the Anunnaki are referred to as karuileš šiuneš, which means "former ancient gods", [59] or kattereš šiuneš, which means "gods of the earth". [59] Hittite and Hurrian treaties were often sworn by the old gods in order to ensure that the oaths would ...
Various terms were employed to describe groups of deities. The collective term Anunnaki is first attested during the reign of Gudea (c. 2144 – 2124 BC) and the Third Dynasty of Ur. [23] [24] This term usually referred to the major deities of heaven and earth, [25] endowed with immense powers, [26] [23] who were believed to "decree the fates ...
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]
The major deities in the Sumerian pantheon included An, the god of the heavens, Enlil, the god of wind and storm, AnKi Enki, the god of water and human culture, Ninhursag, the goddess of fertility and the earth, Utu, the god of the sun and justice, and his father Nanna, the god of the moon.
Ki (Sumerian: ð’€ð’† ) 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.
In Roman mythology, Laverna was a goddess of gain or profit and the underworld, who became associated with the protection of lower classes, refugees, and plans developed by thieves. She was propitiated by libations poured with the left hand. The poet Horace and the playwright Plautus called her a goddess of thieves.
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Lahmu were associated with water. They were generally believed to be servants of Enki/Ea (and later on of his son Marduk as well), and were described as the doorkeepers of his temple in Eridu and possibly as the "guardians of the sea" known from some versions of the Atra-Hasis. Some texts list as many as 50 Lahmu in such roles.