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The names of over 3,000 Mesopotamian deities have been recovered from cuneiform texts. [ 19 ] [ 16 ] Many of these are from lengthy lists of deities compiled by ancient Mesopotamian scribes. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The longest of these lists is a text entitled An = Anum , a Babylonian scholarly work listing the names of over 2,000 deities.
Women of Mesopotamia during ancient history. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. B. Babylonian women (13 P) S. Semiramis ...
Toggle Mesopotamian mythology subsection. 31.1 Akkadian ... Haashchʼéé Baʼáádí (Hastsébaádi, Qastcebaad, Yebaad) (Female Divinity) Haashchʼéé Oołtʼohí ...
Goddesses of Mesopotamia. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. A. Anat (22 P) I. Inanna (2 C, 91 P) T. Tiamat (2 C, 15 P)
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] Inanna's Descent into the Underworld was the inspiration for the "Descent of the Goddess," [395] one of the most popular texts of ...
In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat (Akkadian: 𒀭𒋾𒀀𒆳 D TI.AMAT or 𒀭𒌓𒌈 D TAM.TUM, Ancient Greek: Θαλάττη, romanized: Thaláttē) [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."
Their hymns were sung in a Sumerian dialect known as eme-sal, normally used to render the speech of female gods, [4] and some gala took female names. [5] Homosexual proclivities are implied by the Sumerian proverb which reads, "When the gala wiped off his anus [he said], ‘I must not arouse that which belongs to my mistress [i.e., Inanna ...
Ninshubur was not the only Mesopotamian deity whose gender varied in ancient sources, other examples include Ninkasi (the deity of beer, female in earlier sources but at times male later on), the couple Ninsikila and Lisin, whose genders were in some instances switched around, [3] Uṣur-amāssu, described as a son of Adad in the god list An ...