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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 Sumerian myth of Enlil and Ninlil tells the tale of the leader of the gods, Enlil being banished to the netherworld followed by his wife Ninlil. [10] It mentions the river and its ferryman, Urshanabi, who crosses the river in a boat. Themes of this story are repeated later in the Epic of Gilgamesh where the ferryman is called Urshanabi.
Ogoun, Yoruba/West African/Voodoo god of rum. Ometochtli, Aztec gods of excess. Siduri, wise Mesopotamian female divinity of beer and wine in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Silenus, Greek god of wine, wine pressing, and drunkenness. Siris, Mesopotamian goddess of beer. [1] Sucellus, Celtic god of agriculture, forests, and of the alcoholic drinks of the ...
The major deities in the Sumerian pantheon included An, the god of the heavens, Enlil, the god of wind and storm, AnKi Enki, the god of water and human culture, Ninhursag, the goddess of fertility and the earth, Utu, the god of the sun and justice, and his father Nanna, the god of the moon.
The major deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon were believed to participate in the "assembly of the gods", [6] through which the gods made all of their decisions. [6] This assembly was seen as a divine counterpart to the semi-democratic legislative system that existed during the Third Dynasty of Ur ( c. 2112 BC – c. 2004 BC).
The Abzû or Apsû (Sumerian: ππͺ abzû; Akkadian: ππͺ apsû), also called E ngar (Cuneiform: π, LAGAB×HAL; Sumerian: engar; Akkadian: engurru – lit. ab = 'water' zû = 'deep', recorded in Greek as αΌπασΟν ApasαΉn [1]), is the name for fresh water from underground aquifers which was given a religious fertilising quality in ancient near eastern cosmology, including ...
Enbilulu (Sumerian: ππππ»π» d EN-bi.lu.lu) was a Mesopotamian god associated with irrigation, and by extension with both canals and rivers. The origin of his name is unknown, and there is no agreement among experts in which way he was related to the similarly named deities Bilulu and Ninbilulu.
Nammu (ππ d ENGUR = d LAGAB×αΈͺAL; also read Namma [1]) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as a creator deity in the local theology of Eridu. It is assumed that she was associated with water. She is also well attested in connection with incantations and apotropaic magic.