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Dilmun was an important trading center from the late fourth millennium to 800 BC. [1] At the height of its power, Dilmun controlled the Persian Gulf trading routes. [1] Dilmun was very prosperous during the first 300 years of the second millennium BC. [24] Dilmun was conquered by the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365–1050 BC), and its commercial ...
Meskilak or d PA.NI.PA [2] Inzak (also Enzag, Enzak, [3] Anzak; [1] in older publications Enshag[4]) was the main god of the pantheon of Dilmun. The precise origin of his name remains a matter of scholarly debate. He might have been associated with date palms. His cult center was Agarum, and he is invoked as the god of this location in ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh describes Gilgamesh travelling to a wondrous garden of the gods that is the source of a river, next to a mountain covered in cedars, and references a "plant of life". In the myth, paradise is identified as the place where the deified Sumerian hero of the flood, Utnapishtim (Ziusudra), was taken by the gods to live forever.
Meskilak or Mesikila[ 1] was one of the two main deities worshiped in Dilmun. The other well attested member of the pantheon of this area was Inzak, commonly assumed to be her spouse. The origin of her name is a subject of scholarly dispute. She is also attested in texts from Mesopotamia, where her name was reinterpreted as Ninsikila.
Enki (Sumerian: ๐ญ๐๐ D EN-KI) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki. He was later known as Ea (Akkadian: ๐ญ๐๐) or Ae[5] in Akkadian (Assyrian - Babylonian) religion, and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion. The name was ...
Mashu. Mashu, as described in the Epic of Gilgamesh of Mesopotamian mythology, is a great cedar mountain through which the hero-king Gilgamesh passes via a tunnel on his journey to Dilmun after leaving the Cedar Forest, a forest of ten thousand leagues span. [1] Siduri, the alewife, lived on the shore, associated with "the Waters of Death" that ...
In Sumerian mythology, a me (๐จ; Sumerian: me; Akkadian: paršu) is one of the decrees of the divine that is foundational to Sumerian religious and social institutions, technologies, behaviors, mores, and human conditions that made Mesopotamian civilization possible. They are fundamental to the Sumerian understanding of the relationship ...
The Dilmun Burial Mounds (Arabic: ู ุฏุงูู ุฏูู ูู, romanized: Madฤfin Dilmลซn) are a UNESCO World Heritage Site [1] comprising necropolis areas on the main island of Bahrain dating back to the Dilmun and the Umm al-Nar culture. Bahrain has been known since ancient times as an island with a very large number of burials, the (originally ...