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List of Mesopotamian deities. Appearance. Akkadian cylinder seal dating to c. 2300 BC, depicting the deities Inanna, Utu, Enki, and Isimud [ 1 ] Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia and its major cities relative to modern landmarks. Deities in ancient Mesopotamia were almost exclusively anthropomorphic. [ 2 ]
AncientMesopotamian religion. Babylonian religion is the religious practice of Babylonia. Babylonia's mythology was largely influenced by its Sumerian counterparts and was written on clay tablets inscribed with the cuneiform script derived from Sumerian cuneiform. The myths were usually either written in Sumerian or Akkadian.
The following is a family tree of gods and goddesses from Babylonian mythology. v. t. e. Apsu [1] Tiamat.
Mesopotamian mythology refers to the myths, religious texts, and other literature that comes from the region of ancient Mesopotamia which is a historical region of Western Asia, situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system that occupies the area of present-day Iraq. In particular the societies of Sumer, Akkad, and Assyria, all of which ...
A prayer to the god Enlil. Public devotions Further information: Mesopotamian temple Each Mesopotamian city was home to a deity, and each of the prominent deities was the patron of a city, and all known temples were located in cities, though there may have been shrines in the suburbs. The temple itself was constructed of mud brick in the form of a ziggurat, which rose to the sky in a series of ...
An = Anum. 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.
Enūma Eliš. Enūma Eliš (Akkadian Cuneiform: 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), meaning "When on High", is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words) from the late 2nd millennium BCE and the only complete surviving account of ancient near eastern cosmology. It was recovered by English archaeologist Austen ...
Based on the Weidner god list, Wilfred G. Lambert proposes that she was a medicine goddess. [56] Couples consisting of a warrior god and a medicine goddess (such as Pabilsag and Ninisina or Zababa and Bau) were common in Mesopotamian mythology. [60] Another goddess often viewed as the wife of Nergal was Mammitum.