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The Anunnaki were believed to be the offspring of An and the earth goddess Ki. [2] Samuel Noah Kramer identifies Ki with the Sumerian mother goddess Ninhursag, stating that they were originally the same figure. [3] [4] The oldest of the Anunnaki was Enlil, the god of air [5] and chief god of the Sumerian pantheon. [6]
Anunnaki are chiefly mentioned in literary texts [24] and very little evidence to support the existence of any distinct cult of them has yet been unearthed [29] [24] due to the fact that each deity which could be regarded as a member of the Anunnaki had his or her own individual cult, separate from the others. [23]
Akkadian Paradise is described as a garden in the myth of Atrahasis where lower rank deities (the Igigi) are put to work digging a watercourse by the more senior deities (the Anunnaki). [3] When the gods, man-like, Bore the labour, carried the load, The gods' load was great, The toil grievous, the trouble excessive. The great Anunnaku, the Seven,
Zecharia Sitchin (July 11, 1920 – October 9, 2010) [1] was an author of a number of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts.Sitchin attributed the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he claimed was a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru.
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.
Ancient Sumerian cylinder seal impression showing the god Dumuzid being tortured in the Underworld by galla demons Devotional scene, with Temple. The Sumerian afterlife was a dark, dreary cavern located deep below the ground, [ 22 ] [ 23 ] where inhabitants were believed to continue "a shadowy version of life on earth". [ 22 ]
Enūma Eliš (Akkadian Cuneiform: 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), meaning "When on High", is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words) from the late 2nd millennium BCE and the only complete surviving account of ancient near eastern cosmology.
Xian: immortal beings in Taoism who were sometimes depicted as humanoids with reptile and human features in the Han Dynasty [5] Wadjet pre-dynastic snake goddess of Lower Egypt - sometimes depicted as half snake, half woman. Zahhak, a figure from Zoroastrian mythology who, in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh, grows a serpent on either shoulder.