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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, NarΔ, NamšarΔ, Minki, Amunki, and Δpi."
The name Igigi seems to have originally been applied to the "great gods", [30] but it later came to refer to all the gods of Heaven collectively. [30] In some instances, the terms Anunnaki and Igigi are used synonymously. [23] [24]
Enki (Sumerian: πππ 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: πππ) or Ae [5] in Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) religion, and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion.
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]
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.
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]
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]
[29]: 58 [30]: 231–234 His primary consort was Ninlil, the goddess of the south wind, [31]: 106 who was one of the patron deities of Nippur and was believed to reside in the same temple as Enlil. [32] Ninurta was the son of Enlil and Ninlil. He was worshipped as the god of war, agriculture, and one of the Sumerian wind gods.