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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 ...
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 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 ...
He was closely associated with the Underworld, [198] and some researchers go as far as proposing he was the oldest Mesopotamian god associated with it, [152] though it is most likely more accurate to say that there was initially no single universally agreed upon version of relevant mythical and cultic concepts, with various deities, both male ...
"Sumerian cities each had their own gods but acknowledged the supremacy of...Enlil." [33] Enki was god of freshwater, male fertility, and knowledge. [20]: 75 His most important cult center was the E-abzu temple in the city of Eridu. [20]: 75 He was the patron and creator of humanity [20]: 75 and the sponsor of human culture.
The only indication of an association with a local pantheon other than that of Eridu is the epithet assigned to her in the god list An = Anum (tablet I, line 27), munus agrig-zi-é-kur-(ra-)ke 4, "true housekeeper of Ekur", but it might have only been assigned to her due to confusion with similarly named Ninimma, who was a member of Enlil's ...
After a missing section in the tablet, we learn that the gods have decided to send a flood to destroy mankind. The god Enki (lord of the underworld sea of fresh water and Sumerian equivalent of Babylonian god Ea) warns Ziusudra, the ruler of Shuruppak, to build a large boat; the passage describing the directions for the boat is also lost. When ...
The river plays a certain role in Mesopotamian mythology and Assyro-Babylonian religion, associated with the Sumerian paradise and heroes and deities such as Gilgamesh, Enlil, Enki and Ninlil. [4] The Hubur was suggested to be between the twin peaks of Mount Mashu to the east in front of the gates of the netherworld.