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Dumuzid, later known by the corrupted form Tammuz, is the ancient Mesopotamian god of shepherds [131] and the primary consort of the goddess Inanna. [131] His sister is the goddess Geshtinanna. [131] [132] In addition to being the god of shepherds, Dumuzid was also an agricultural deity associated with the growth of plants.
A prayer to the god Enlil. Public devotions Further information: Mesopotamian temple Each Mesopotamian city was home to a deity, and each of the prominent deities was the patron of a city, and all known temples were located in cities, though there may have been shrines in the suburbs. The temple itself was constructed of mud brick in the form of a ziggurat, which rose to the sky in a series of ...
Weidner god list. Weidner god list is the conventional name of one of the known ancient Mesopotamian lists of deities, originally compiled by ancient scribes in the late third millennium BCE, with the oldest known copy dated to the Ur III or the Isin-Larsa period. Further examples have been found in many excavated Mesopotamian cities, and come ...
An = Anum. 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.
Mesopotamian mythology refers to the myths, religious texts, and other literature that comes from the region of ancient Mesopotamia which is a historical region of Western Asia, situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system that occupies the area of present-day Iraq. In particular the societies of Sumer, Akkad, and Assyria, all of which ...
The following is a family tree of gods and goddesses from Babylonian mythology. v. t. e. Apsu [1] Tiamat.
Nabu was the patron god of scribes, literacy, and wisdom. [7] He was also the inventor of writing, a divine scribe, the patron god of the rational arts, and a god of vegetation. [8]: 33–34 [9] As the god of writing, Nabu inscribed the fates assigned to men and he was equated with the scribe god Ninurta. [9][10] As an oracle he was associated ...
URTA, possible meaning "Lord [of] Barley"), [1] also known as Ninĝirsu (Sumerian: 𒀭𒎏𒄈𒋢: D NIN. ĜIR 2.SU, meaning "Lord [of] Girsu "), [2] is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war who was first worshipped in early Sumer. In the earliest records, he is a god of agriculture and ...