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The major deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon were believed to participate in the "assembly of the gods", [6] through which the gods made all of their decisions. [6] This assembly was seen as a divine counterpart to the semi-democratic legislative system that existed during the Third Dynasty of Ur ( c. 2112 BC – c. 2004 BC).
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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.
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 from between the ...
Enlil, [a] later known as Elil and Ellil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms. [4] He is first attested as the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon, [5] but he was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hurrians.
In the Kesh temple hymn, Ashgi is characterized as a warrior god. [2] He was also the tutelary god of Adab. [1]While Thorkild Jacobsen classified Ashgi as one of the gods associated with herding, [3] the view that Mesopotamian gods can be grouped based on "the ecological potential of their respective habitats" has been criticized by Wilfred G. Lambert, who characterized it as creating "more ...
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.
The gods do not appear to be separated into strictly Sumerian and Akkadian columns. [53] Furthermore, some gods are listed with no equivalents at all, for example Zababa, who was a well established deity. [54] Some deities listed are not Sumerian or Akkadian, but Elamite, "Subarian" , [55] or Gutian. [56]