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Babylonian representation of the national god Marduk, who the Babylonians and Assyrians envisioned as a prominent member of the Anunnaki Akkadian texts of the second millennium BC follow similar portrayals of the Anunnaki from Inanna's Descent into the Netherworld , depicting them as chthonic Underworld deities.
In the Babylonian creation epic, the Enûma Eliš, Abzu is primordial undeterminacy, [240] the consort of the goddess Tiamat who was killed by the god Ea (Enki). [240] Abzu was the personification of the subterranean primeval waters. [240] Alala and Belili
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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.
These are the seven deities: Enlil; Enki; Inanna; Nabu; Nanna-Suen; Ninhursag; Utu; At various times, a single god in Babylonian cities was assigned a primary "special duty" for each city, such as being "the god of earth and the air" or "the god of the sky", and seen as the god with the most influence in that city by far. [6]
Marduk (Cuneiform: 𒀭𒀫𒌓 ᵈAMAR.UTU; Sumerian: amar utu.k "calf of the sun; solar calf"; Hebrew: מְרֹדַךְ, Modern: Merōdaḵ, Tiberian: Mərōḏaḵ) is a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of Babylon who eventually rose to power in the 1st millennium BC.
Her husband is the god Dumuzid (later known as Tammuz), and her sukkal (attendant) is the goddess Ninshubur, later conflated with the male deities Ilabrat and Papsukkal. Inanna was worshipped in Sumer at least as early as the Uruk period (c. 4000 – 3100 BCE), and her cultic activity was relatively localized before the conquest of Sargon of Akkad.
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]