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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]
Doris, goddess of the sea's bounty and wife of Nereus. Dynamene sea nymph and daughter of Nereus, associated with the power and might of ocean waves. Eidothea, prophetic sea nymph and daughter of Proteus. Electra, an Oceanid, consort of Thaumas. Enipeus, a river god; Eurybia, goddess of the mastery of the seas. Galene (Γαλήνη), goddess of ...
Enki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒂗𒆠 D EN-KI) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki.He was later known as Ea (Akkadian: 𒀭𒂍𒀀) or Ae [5] in Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) religion, and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion.
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.
The Horus of the night deities – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or ...
The goddess Antu is also attested as a wife of Anu. [48] Her name is etymologically an Akkadian feminine form of Anu. [46] The god list An = Anum equates her with Ki, [49] while a lexical text from the Old Babylonian period – with Urash. [46] There is evidence that like the latter, she could be considered a goddess associated with the earth. [40]