Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Gat Um Dug" | Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria | Ancient earth Mother and goddess of fertility of the Lagash. Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |
Goddess name "Gatumdug" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Fertility goddess. The daughter of the sky god AN, she is the tutelary mother goddess of Lagas'.... |
Goddess name "Gatumdug/ Gula" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Babylon / Akkadia | A fertility goddess as well as the tutelary goddess of Lagas |
God name "Gerra" | Mesopotamia / Babylon / Akkadia | The god of fire who was the Sumeria god Gibil |
God name "Gerra" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | God of fire. Derived from the Sumerian GIBIL, he is the son of ANU and ANUNITU and becomes largely syncretized with both ERRA and NERGAL.... |
God name "Gestu" | Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria | Minor god of the intellect whose blood was used in the creation of mankind. Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |
God name "Gestu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor god of intellect. According to legend he was sacrificed by the great gods and his blood was used in the creation of mankind.... |
God name "Gibil" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Fire god. The son of AN and KI. By the Akkadian period he becomes known as GERRA.... |
God name "Giszida" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / BabylonianAkkadian | God. See Nin-giszida. See also NINGISZIDA.... |
Goddess name "Gula (great one)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess of healing. Consort of NINURTA. Her animal is the dog. She may be synonymous with NIN'INSINA. Also mentioned in Hellenistic Babylonian times. A Gula temple is described at Uruk. Also NINTINUGGA.... |
Goddess name "Gunura" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | deity of uncertain status. Described variously as the husband of the goddess NIN'INSINA and the father of Damu (DUMUZI), but also as the sister of Damu.... |
Goddess name "Hadad" | Western Semitic / Syrian / Phoenician | weather god. Derived from the Akkadian deity ADAD. In texts found at the site of the ancient Canaanite capital of Ugarit [Ras Samra] , the name of Hadad apparently becomes a substitute for that of BAAL. His voice is described as roaring from the clouds and his weapon is the thunderbolt. His mother is the goddess ASERAH. During Hellenic times he was predominantly worshiped at Ptolemais and Hierapolis. His Syrian consort is ATARGATIS, who overshadowed him in local popularity at Hierapolis. Statues of the two deities were carried in procession to the sea twice yearly. According to the Jewish writer Josephus, Hadad also enjoyed a major cult following at Damascus in the eighth and ninth centuries BC. By the third century BC the Hadad-Atargatis cult had extended to Egypt, when he becomes identified as the god SUTEKH. In the Greek tradition his consort becomes HERA.See also ADAD.... |
God name "Hahanu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of uncertain function. Known from påśśing reference in texts and from inscriptions.... |
Goddess name "Hala" | Kassite / Iraq | Goddess of healing. Probably later syncretized with the Akkadian goddess GULA.... |
God name "Hani(s)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor god. The attendant of ADAD and linked with SULLAT.... |
God name "Hani[s]" | Mesopotamia / Babylon / Akkadia | A minor god |
God name "Hayasum" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor god. Known from texts, but of uncertain function.... |
God name "Hendursaga" | Akkadia | God of law Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |