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Dingir π , usually transliterated DIΔIR, [1] (Sumerian pronunciation:) is a Sumerian word for 'god' or 'goddess'. Its cuneiform sign is most commonly employed as the determinative for religious names and related concepts, in which case it is not pronounced and is conventionally transliterated as a superscript d , e.g. d Inanna.
[348] [349] He is the son of the sky-god An [348] and his wife is an obscure, minor goddess named Mami, who is different from the mother goddess with the same name. [ 348 ] [ 350 ] As early as the Akkadian Period, Erra was already associated with Nergal [ 348 ] [ 349 ] and he eventually came to be seen as merely an aspect of him.
The sun god was one of the principal deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon. [13] In the Early Dynastic god list from Fara, he is the sixth among the deities listed, after Anu, Enlil, Inanna, Enki and Nanna. [14] In later god lists, for example in An = Anum, he and his circle appears between Nanna (Sin) and Ishkur (Adad). [14]
Gods #4/5 (identical), are the "Wind Gods", Adad, and Rammânu. The cuneiform an sign (or sumerogram AN , in Akkadian consisting of ASH πΈ and MAŠ π¦), is a common, multi-use sign, a syllabic for an , and an alphabetic sign used for a , or n ; it is common in both the Epic of Gilgamesh over hundreds of years, and the 1350 BC Amarna letters ...
Sumerian deities developed Akkadian counterparts. Some remained virtually the same until later Babylonian and Assyrian rule. The Sumerian god An, for example, developed the Akkadian counterpart Anu; the Sumerian god Enki became Ea. The gods Ninurta and Enlil kept their original Sumerian names. [citation needed]
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.
Ninurta (Sumerian: ππ©ππ : D NIN. URTA, possible meaning "Lord [of] Barley"), [1] also known as NinΔirsu (Sumerian: ππππ’: D NIN. ΔIR 2.SU, meaning "Lord [of] Girsu"), [2] is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war who was first worshipped in early Sumer.
His name in Hebrew, Merodak, supports the longer version, [5] and First Millennium Assyrian and Babylonian texts employ the long spelling when the circumstances call for the precise form of the name. [6] The personal name Martuku is not to be confused with the god Marduk. [7] Marduk was commonly called BΔl (lord) in the First Millennium BC. [8]