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Although the names of the Anunnaki in Hurrian and Hittite texts frequently vary, [57] they are always eight in number. [57] In one Hittite ritual, the names of the old gods are listed as: "Aduntarri the diviner, Zulki the dream interpretess, Irpitia Lord of the Earth, Narā, Namšarā, Minki, Amunki, and Āpi."
The ancestral Enki's name means "lord earth," while the meaning of the name of the god of Eridu is uncertain but not the same, as indicated by some writings including an amissable g. [257] Enmesharra: Enmesharra was a minor deity of the underworld. [65] Seven, eight or fifteen other minor deities were said to be his offspring. [258]
Enlil protests that the Eshumesha gods are innocent, [90] so Marduk puts them on trial before the Anunnaki. [90] The text ends with a warning from Damkianna (another name for Ninhursag) to the gods and to humanity, pleading them not to repeat the war between the Anunnaki and the gods of Eshumesha. [90]
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]
The exact meaning of Enki's name is uncertain: the common translation is "Lord of the Earth". The Sumerian En is translated as a title equivalent to "lord" and was originally a title given to the High Priest. Ki means "earth", but there are theories that ki in this name has another origin, possibly kig of unknown meaning, or kur meaning
The name has unknown origin. It was originally spelt i-gi 4-gi 4, but was later also written as í-gì-gì. This latter may have been a play on words, as in Sumerian, the combination can be interpreted as numerals adding to 7 (the number of Great Gods), or multiplying to 600 (which in some traditions was the total number of gods). [2]
The tablet ends with a group of various gods mostly associated with Adad or Shamash, such as Shullat and Hanish, though with some exceptions which were instead linked with Ea, Nisaba or Ishtar. [102] It has been proposed that what unified these deities was their possible Syrian origin, [65] but this view is not universally accepted. [90]
Nergal (Sumerian: 𒀭𒄊𒀕𒃲 [1] d KIŠ.UNU or d GÌR.UNU.GAL; [2] Hebrew: נֵרְגַל, Modern: Nergal, Tiberian: Nērgal; Aramaic: ܢܸܪܓܲܠ; [3] Latin: Nirgal) was a Mesopotamian god worshiped through all periods of Mesopotamian history, from Early Dynastic to Neo-Babylonian times, with a few attestations indicating that his cult survived into the period of Achaemenid domination.