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Anu (Akkadian: 𒀭𒀀𒉡 ANU, from 𒀭 an "Sky", "Heaven") or Anum, originally An (Sumerian: 𒀭 An), [10] was the divine personification of the sky, king of the gods, and ancestor of many of the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion. He was regarded as a source of both divine and human kingship, and opens the enumerations of deities in ...
Enuma Anu Enlil (𒌓𒀭𒈾𒀭𒂗𒆤𒇲 U 4 AN.na d EN.LÍL.lá, [1] lit. When [the gods] Anu and Enlil [...]), abbreviated EAE , is a major series of 68 or 70 tablets (depending on the recension ) dealing with Babylonian astrology .
The same tablet also contains the section focused on Enki (Ea), accompanied by his wife Damkina. [65] The order of the sections focused on him and Ninhursag is reversed compared to the An = Anum forerunner, which according to Ryan D. Winters might indicate the compilers of An = Anum followed the tradition making the latter the older sister 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.
Amun [a] was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad.Amun was attested from the Old Kingdom together with his wife Amunet.His oracle in Siwa Oasis, located in Western Egypt near the Libyan Desert, remained the only oracle of Amun throughout. [5]
Amen (Hebrew: אָמֵן, ʾāmēn; Ancient Greek: ἀμήν, amḗn; Classical Syriac: ܐܡܝܢ, 'amīn; [1] Arabic: آمين, ʾāmīn) is an Abrahamic declaration of affirmation [2] which is first found in the Hebrew Bible, and subsequently found in the New Testament. [3]
Ea, however, found out about the plot and kills Apsu and takes his splendour. Later Marduk was born to Ea and Damkina, and already at birth he was special. Tiamat then decides to wage war against the younger generation of the gods, giving Kingu the Tablet of Destinies and appointing him as the commander.
Anammelech (Hebrew: עֲנַמֶּלֶךְ ʿAnammelekh), according to the Hebrew Bible, [1] was a Syrian and Mesopotamian deity worshipped alongside Adrammelech.He is a lunar deity and is said to have been worshipped at Sepharvaim, an Assyrian town.