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Women of Babylonia (1895-539 BC) during ancient history. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Babylonian people . It includes Babylonian people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Among ancient baby girl names, you'll find Mila (28), Valentina (49), Brianna (152), Aurelia (371) and Fiona (400) on the top 1,000 list. If you want the most ancient of ancient baby names ...
Babylonian women (13 P) S. Semiramis (2 C, 14 P) W. ... Pages in category "Ancient Mesopotamian women" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Inanna is the primary ancient source for Aleister Crowley's Babalon, a principal goddess in the religion Thelema. Inanna's name is also used to refer to the Goddess in modern Neopaganism and Wicca. [393] Her name occurs in the refrain of the "Burning Times Chant," [394] one of the most widely used Wiccan liturgies. [394]
Dabitum was a slave-girl who lived in Sippar [3] during the Old Babylonian period (c. 1900–1600 BC), [4] around the time of the Babylonian kings Hammurabi (c. 1792–1750 BC) and Samsu-iluna (1750–1712 BC). [5] Her name means "she-bear"; a rare name for a slave since animal names were typically used only by free people. [3]
In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat (Akkadian: ð’€ð’‹¾ð’€€ð’†³ D TI.AMAT or ð’€ð’Œ“𒌈 D TAM.TUM, Ancient Greek: Θαλάττη, romanized: ThaláttÄ“) [1] is the primordial sea, mating with Abzû (Apsu), the groundwater, to produce the gods in the Babylonian epic Enûma Elish, which translates as "when on high."
In a bilingual Akkadian-Amorite lexical list from the Old Babylonian period which presumably originated in southern Mesopotamia, [69] DIÄœIR.MAḪ (BÄ“let-ilÄ«) was equated with an Amorite deity named Ê”Aṯeratum (a-še-ra-tum), but according to Andrew R. George and Manfred Krebernik in this context the name designated Athirat, the goddess ...
Ishtar is the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate Phoenician goddess Astarte. Anunit, Atarsamain and Esther are alternative names for Ishtar. Ishtar is a goddess of fertility, sexual love, and war. [56] In the Babylonian pantheon, she "was the divine personification of the planet Venus". [57]