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A fragmentary late neo-Assyrian god list appears to consider her and another figure regarded as the wife of Anu, Urash, as one and the same, and refers to "Ki-Urash." [403] Kittum: Bad-Tibira, Rahabu [404] Kittum was a daughter of Utu and Sherida. [405] Her name means "Truth". [405] Kus: Kus is a god of herdsmen referenced in the Theogony of ...
An = Anum, also known as the Great God List, [1] [2] is the longest preserved Mesopotamian god list, a type of lexical list cataloging the deities worshiped in the Ancient Near East, chiefly in modern Iraq. While god lists are already known from the Early Dynastic period, An = Anum most likely was composed in the later Kassite period.
However, according to the god list An = Anum, a god bearing the name Yabnu (d ia-ab-na) was the "Enlil of Elam." [135] Wilfred G. Lambert concluded that Jabru and Yabnu should be considered two spellings of the same name. [7] While Jabru is described as an Elamite god in Mesopotamian sources, no known Elamite texts mention him. [7]
Ancient Assyria was an absolute monarchy, with the king believed to be appointed directly through divine right by the chief deity, Ashur. [1] The Assyrians believed that the king was the link between the gods and the earthly realm.
The god Marduk and his dragon MušαΈ«uššu. Ancient Mesopotamian religion encompasses the religious beliefs (concerning the gods, creation and the cosmos, the origin of man, and so forth) and practices of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia between circa 6000 BC [1] and 400 AD.
King of Gods in Manipuri mythology; King of Serpent deities in Manipuri mythology; Philippine deities; West Asia. Anatolia. Hittite deities; Hurrian deities; Lydian deities; Middle East. Mesopotamian deities. Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods) Kassite deities; Sumerian deities; Ugaritic deities; Semitic ...
Ashur, Ashshur, also spelled Ašur, Aššur (Sumerian: ππΉ, romanized: AN.ŠARβ, Assyrian cuneiform: ππΉ Aš-šur, πππ³π¬ α΅a-šurβ) [1] was the national god of the Assyrians in ancient times until their gradual conversion to Christianity between the 1st and 5th centuries AD.
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.. List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere