The following is a familytreeofgods and goddesses from Babylonian mythology. v t e Enūma Eliš List of Mesopotamian deities Ishtar is sometimes considered...
The following is a familytreeofgods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Key:...
rather than Enki, as the third most prominent deity. An Old Babylonian source preserves a tradition in which Nanna was the king ofthegods, and Anu, Enlil...
a familytreeof Japanese deities. It covers early emperors until Emperor Ojin, the first definitively known historical emperor, see familytreeof Japanese...
current rulers of Morocco the Husainid Dynasty Beys and Kings of Tunis Sumerian godsBabyloniangods Greek gods Japanese kami Māori gods Norse gods High-elf...
combined epic in Akkadian. The first surviving version of this combined epic, known as the "Old Babylonian" version, dates back to the 18th century BC and is...
– not Enki – walks in the Garden of Paradise.[page needed] After six generations ofgods, in theBabylonian Enûma Eliš, in the seventh generation, (Akkadian...
kingdom centered around the city of Babylon. Like Assyria, theBabylonian state retained the written Akkadian language (the language of its native populace)...
Judaism. This theory of a Babylonian-derived Bible originated from the discovery of a stele in the acropolis of Susa bearing a Babylonian flood myth with many...
The five planets visible to the naked eye and the sun and moon are connected with the chief godsoftheBabylonian pantheon. A list now held in the British...
various gods and goddesses being worshipped by the Israelites. At the head of this pantheon was Yahweh—held in an especially high regard as the two Israelite...
overthrows the older regime ofgods and creates the Earth, as the unknown "Twelfth Planet". In order to do this he interprets the Assyrio-Babylonian theogony...
originally An (Sumerian: 𒀭 An), was the divine personification ofthe sky, king ofthegods, and ancestor of many ofthe deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion...
Shamash and the “godsofthe night” invokes Enki and Ninki alongside Alala and Belili, a pair of primordial deities belonging to thefamilytreeof Anu. A...
body under the shade ofthe mulberry tree. Thisbe, after praying to their parents and thegods to have them buried together and a brief period of mourning...
the Old Babylonian period and still mentioned in inscriptions from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II. He was also one ofthe many gods worshiped in the Esagil...
The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organized, and best-preserved legal text from the...
more associated with the physical process of birth. (i.e. her offerings including umbilical cord cutters) In the Old Babylonian Period some posit a decline...
Sumerian religion, and hence in Babylonian and Greco-Roman religion, viz. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Gods, goddesses, and demons may also...
Humbaba, which provokes the anger ofthegods. Humbaba is also attested in other works of Mesopotamian literature. Multiple depictions of him have also been...
Ancient Near East literature. The apparition of Enkidu as a primitive man seems to be a potential parallel ofthe Old Babylonian version (1300–1000 BC), in...
Nəḇūḵaḏneʾṣṣar), also spelled Nebuchadrezzar II, was the second king ofthe Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to his...
with the last generation ofgods, Enlil and his twin sons Nušku and Ninurta, who share rule amicably. It is extant in a sole-surviving late Babylonian copy...
periods of Mesopotamian history, from Early Dynastic to Neo-Babylonian times, with a few attestations indicating that his cult survived into the period of Achaemenid...
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