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Sumerian King List at the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. The Sumerian King List (abbreviated SKL) or Chronicle of the One Monarchy is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia during the ...
Anu (Akkadian: πππ‘ANU, from π an "Sky", "Heaven") or Anum, originally An (Sumerian: πAn), [ 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 ...
The Sumerian King List makes him a shepherd, who reigned for 1,200 years. [425] He has a close relationship with the goddess Inanna. [425] Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea: Kisiga [425] Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea are a set of twin gods who were worshipped in the village of Kisiga, located in northern Babylonia. [425]
e. Sumerian religion was the religion practiced by the people of Sumer, the first literate civilization found in recorded history and based in ancient Mesopotamia, and what is modern day Iraq. The Sumerians widely regarded their divinities as responsible for all matters pertaining to the natural and social orders of their society. [3]: 3–4.
An = Anum. An = Anum, also known as the Great God List, [1][2] is the longest preserved Mesopotamian god list, a type of lexical list cataloging the deities worshiped in the Ancient Near East, chiefly in modern Iraq. While god lists are already known from the Early Dynastic period, An = Anum most likely was composed in the later Kassite period.
Gilgamesh (/ Λ Ι‘ Ιͺ l Ι‘ Ι m Ι Κ /, [7] / Ι‘ Ιͺ l Λ Ι‘ ΙΛ m Ι Κ /; [8] Akkadian: ππππ¦, romanized: Gilgameš; originally Sumerian: ππππ΅π, romanized: Bilgames) [9] [a] was a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC.
Alulim (Sumerian: π π» π , romanized: Álulim; transliterated: aβ.lu.lim) was a mythological Mesopotamian ruler, regarded as the first king ever to rule. He is known from the Sumerian King List, Ballad of Early Rulers, and other similar sources which invariably place him in Eridu and assign a reign lasting thousands of years to him.
The sun god was one of the principal deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon. [13] In the Early Dynastic god list from Fara, he is the sixth among the deities listed, after Anu, Enlil, Inanna, Enki and Nanna. [14] In later god lists, for example in An = Anum, he and his circle appears between Nanna (Sin) and Ishkur (Adad). [14]