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The Abzû or Apsû (Sumerian: ๐๐ช abzû; Akkadian: ๐๐ช apsû), also called E ngar (Cuneiform: ๐, LAGAB×HAL; Sumerian: engar; Akkadian: engurru – lit. ab = 'water' zû = 'deep', recorded in Greek as แผπασฯν Apasแนn [1]), is the name for fresh water from underground aquifers which was given a religious fertilising quality in ancient near eastern cosmology, including ...
Enki (Sumerian: ๐ญ๐๐ 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: ๐ญ๐๐) or Ae [5] in Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) religion, and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion.
The Sumerian myth of Enki and Ninmah (Ninhursag) states that humans were fashioned from clay to serve the gods (see Enki and the Making of Man). Of note, the creation of humans is portrayed as a contest between Enki and Ninhursag, who take turns finding correct places in society for the newly created humans.
An = Anum, a Sumerian god synonym-list on six tablets thought to have originated during the late Kassite era [10] [CT XXIV 20-50 [p 7]] [p 8] An = Anu ša amฤli , "An is the Anu of man", undoubtedly a Kassite product according to Lambert , an Akkadian list of around 160 divine names [ 10 ] [CT XXV, pl. 47, 48, [ p 9 ] CT XXVI, pl. 50 [ p 10 ...
In Sumerian cosmology, the souls of the dead had to travel across the desert or steppe, cross the Hubur river, to the mountainland of Kur. [5] Here the souls had to pass through seven different walled and gated locations to reach the netherworld. [11] The Anunnaki administered Kur as if it were a civilized settlement both architecturally and ...
Idlurugu (Sumerian: i 7-lú-ru-gú, also read Ilurugu [1]) or Id (d ÍD) [2] was a Mesopotamian god regarded as both a river deity and a divine judge. He was the personification of a type of trial by ordeal, which shared its name with him.
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Enlil was the patron god of the Sumerian city-state of Nippur [14] and his main center of worship was the Ekur temple located there. [15] The name of the temple literally means "Mountain House" in ancient Sumerian. [16] The Ekur was believed to have been built and established by Enlil himself. [16]