Adad · Ashnan Asaruludu · Emesh Enbilulu · Enkimdu · Enten Ereshkigal · Kabta Lahar · Mushdamma Nammu · Nanshe · Nergal Nidaba · Ningal Ninisinna · Ninkasi Ninlil · Ninurta · Nusku Sumugan · Urshanabi Uttu · Annunaki Adad in Akkadian and Ishkur in Sumerian are the names of the storm-god in the Babylonian-Assyrian pantheon, both usually written by the logogram dIM. The Akkadian god Adad is cognate in name and functio ...

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Ea

(Akkadian, "the Living One") The Babylonian creator god, identified with the Sumerian Enki, god of subterranean waters, magic, and manual skills.

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Bel, signifying "lord" or "master", is a title rather than a genuine name, applied to various gods in Babylonian religion. The feminine form is Belit 'Lady, Mistress'. Bel is represented in Greek and Latin by Belos and Belus respectively. Linguistically Bel is an east Semitic form cognate with northwest Semitic Ba‘al which has the same meaning. Early translators of Akkadian believed that the ideogram for the god called in Sumerian Enlil was to be read as Bel in Akkadian. This i ...

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For the fictional Anunnaki from Demon: The Fallen, see Annunaki (White Wolf). The Anunnaki or Anunnaku are a group of Sumerian mythological and Akkadian deities related to, and in some cases overlapping with, the Annuna (the 'Fifty Great Gods') and the Igigi (minor gods). The name is variously written "da-nuna", "da-nuna-ke4-ne", or "da-nun-na", meaning something like 'those of royal blood'1Including:

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The apsû (also known as abzu or engur) was the name for the mythological underground freshwater ocean in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology. Lakes, springs, rivers, wells, and other sources of fresh water were thought to draw their water from the apsû. The Sumerian god Enki (Ea in Akkadian) was believed to have lived in the apsû since before human beings were created. His wife Damgalnuna, his mother Nammu, and a variety of subservient creatures also lived in the apsû. ...

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4 primary: An Enlil Ki Enki 3 sky: Ishtar Sin Sama Shamash or Sama, was the common Akkadian name of the sun-god in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian Utu. The name signifies perhaps "servitor," and would thus point to a secondary position occupied at one time by this deity. Both in early and in late inscriptions Sha-mash is designated a ...

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4 primary: An Enlil Ki Enki 3 sky: Ishtar Sin Sama In Sumerian mythology, An (see also Anu) was the god whose name was synonymous with the sun's zenith, or heaven. He was the oldest god in the Sumerian pantheon, and part of a triad including Enlil, god of the sky and Enki, god of water. He was called Anu by the Akkadians, rulers of Mesopotamia after the c ...

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In Akkadian mythology, Zu (called Anzu in Persia and Sumer) was a lesser god, the son of the bird goddess Siris. Both Zu and Siris are seen as massive birds who can breathe fire and water, although Zu is alternately seen as a lion-headed eagle (compare with the griffin). Zu was a servant of the chief sky god, Enlil. He stole the Tablets of Fate from his master, hoping to determine the fate of all things. In one version of the story, the gods sent Lugalbanda to retrieve the tablets, and he, in turn, killed Zu. In another, ...

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Belus in Latin or Belos in accurate Greek transliteration is one of: Belus - Persons. Ba‘al: a title ("lord") in northwest Semitic languages, often applied to particular gods. Bel: a title ("lord") in Akkadian, especially applied to the Babylonian god Marduk but also used of other gods. Belus (Babylonian): the Greek Zeus Belos and Latin Jupiter Belus as translations of the Babylonian god Bel Marduk or an euhemerized version of ...

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Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu, an ancient city in Mesopotamia (Location: 32°32′11″N, 44°25′15″E, modern Al Hillah, Iraq). It was the "holy city" of Babylonia from early times, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian empire from 612 BC. In the Hebrew Bible, the name appears as בבל (Babel), interpreted by popular etymology to mean "confusion". Akkadian bāb-ilû means "Gate of God", translating Sumerian Kadingirra. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Hanging Gar ...

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In Akkadian mythology Humbaba (Assyrian spelling) or Huwawa (Babylonian) was a monstrous giant (see also Styx), who was also the guardian of the Forest of Cedars, where the gods lived. His face is that of a lion. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh and Enkidu set out on an adventure to the cedar forest to slay Humbaba. Defeated, Humbaba appeals to a receptive Gilgamesh for mercy but Enkidu convinces Gilgamesh to slay Humbaba. Enlil, the god who set Humbaba as the forest's guardian, becomes enraged upon learning this and

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Tammuz or Tamuz Arabic تمّوز Tammūz; Hebrew תַּמּוּז, Standard Hebrew Tammuz, Tiberian Hebrew Tammûz; Akkadian Duʾzu, Dūzu; Sumerian Dumuzi was the name of a Babylonian deity. See also Tammuz (month). Tammuz - Ritual mourning. In Babylonia, the month Tammuz was established in honor of the eponymous god Tammuz, who originated as a Sumerian shepherd-god, Dumuzid or Dumuzi, the consort of Inanna and in hi ...

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Tammuz - Ritual mourning Tammuz - The Myth Tammuz - An older interpretation Tammuz - Tammuz in Tamil culture

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Marduk Tiamat Agasaya Apsû Bel Kingu Mummu Nabu Namtar Nintu Sarpanit Tammuz Enûma Elish Atra-Hasis Marduk [mär'dook] (Sumerian spelling in Akkadian AMAR.UTU "solar calf"; Biblical Merodach) was the name of a late generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon permanently becam ...

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People with the name Zu: Zu Chongzhi, Chinese mathematician. ZU can mean: Helios Airways (IATA code) Zu can mean: Zu, a lesser god in Akkadian mythology Zu, an Italian hardcore/jazz band Zu, a genus of ribbonfish zu can mean: Zulu language (ISO 639 alpha-2, zu) a German word, meaning "to". As part of a family name, it can indicate belonging to the nobility and possession of a ...

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Ninurta 'Lord Plough' in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology was the god of Nippur, identified with Ningirsu with whom he may always have been identical. In older transcriptions the name is rendered Ninib and in older commentary he is sometimes seen as a solar deity. In Nippur Ninurta was worshipped as part of a triad of deities including his father Enlil and his mother Ninlil. Ninurta often appears holding a bow and arrow and a mace named Sharur to which he speaks when attacking the monster Imdugud, and ...

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In Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, Pazuzu was the king of the demons of wind, and son of the god Hanbi. For the Sumerians he also represented the southwestern wind, the bearer of storms. Pazuzu - Mythology. Pazuzu is often depicted with the body of a man but with the head of a lion or dog, talons instead of feet, two pairs of wings, the tail of a scorpion and a serpentine penis. He is also depicted with the right hand upward, and the left hand downward; the position of the hands means life and deat ...

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Amorite (Hebrew ’emōrî, Egyptian Amar, Akkadian Tidnum or Amurrūm (corresponding to Sumerian MAR.TU or Martu) refers to a Semitic people who occupied the country west of the Euphrates from the second half of the third millennium BC, and also the god they worshipped (see Amurru). Amorite - From inscriptions and tablets. In early Babylonian inscriptions, all western lands, including Syria and Canaan, were known as "the land of the Amorites", who ...

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Amorite - From inscriptions and tablets
Amorite - Repercussions over Mesopotamia
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The reference below, Garbini, covers 'many' of the following "categories" of Cylinder seals. Note that the book is in the category of "Artworks, from World History". A beginning Categorization of Cylinder seals: Akkadian cylinder seals. --Akkadian seal, ca. 2300 BC, stone seal w/ modern impression. See National Geographic Ref. The glyptic(the Scenes) shows "God in barge", people and offerings. Assyrian cylinder seals. Egyptian cylinder seals. --Egyptian Naqada period (tombs, graves),(im ...

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Cylinder seal, Cylinder seal - Theme-driven Memorial and Commemorative nature, Cylinder seal - Cylinder seals, Cylinder seal - Seal impression: a component of a liquid-offering receptacle, Cylinder seal - See

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In Sanchuniathon's account Hadad is once called Adodos but mostly named Demarûs, a puzzling form, possibly a Greek corruption of Hadad Ramān. Sanchuniathon's Hadad is son of Sky by a concubine who is then given to the god Dagon while she is pregnant by Sky. This appears to be an attempt to combine two accounts of Hadad's parentage, one of which is the Ugaritic tradition that Hadad was son of Dagon. The cognate Akkadian god Adad is also often called the son of Anu 'Sky'. The corresponding Hittite god Teshub is ...

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