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  2. List of Mesopotamian deities - Wikipedia

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    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).

  3. Ancient Mesopotamian religion - Wikipedia

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    The god Marduk and his dragon Mušḫuššu. 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.

  4. Weidner god list - Wikipedia

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    Weidner god list is the conventional name of one of the known ancient Mesopotamian lists of deities, originally compiled by ancient scribes in the late third millennium BCE, with the oldest known copy dated to the Ur III or the Isin-Larsa period. Further examples have been found in many excavated Mesopotamian cities, and come from between the ...

  5. Category:Mesopotamian gods - Wikipedia

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    Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; ... Pages in category "Mesopotamian gods" The following 145 pages are in this category, out of ...

  6. An = Anum - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Sumerian religion - Wikipedia

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    In later times, Ereshkigal was believed to rule alongside her husband Nergal, the god of death. 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 ...

  8. Category:Mesopotamian deities - Wikipedia

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    Mythology portal; Asia portal; NOTE: Since the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians and others all shared essentially the same pantheon and belief systems, the Sumerian and Akkadian (and Assyro-Babylonian) articles should be combined under the Mesopotamian mythology / deities / legendary creatures categories.

  9. Family tree of the Babylonian gods - Wikipedia

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    Dalley, Stephanie. (1998) [1989]. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others.Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-283589-0.; Heidel ...