Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Sirara" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess of the Persian Gulf. In creation mythology she is given charge over the waters of the Gulf by the god ENKI.... |
Goddess name "Sirtur" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Sheep goddess. Known from inscriptions and påśśing comments in texts. Syncretized with NINSUN.... |
Goddess name "Sul-pa-e (youthful radiance)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Fertility and astral god. Identified as the personification of the planet Jupiter and, in one list, the consort of the mother goddess NINHURSAG A.... |
Goddess name "Sulsaga" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Astral goddess. Sul-utula... |
God name "Sumugan" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | God of the river plains. In creation mythology he is given charge by the god ENKI over the flat alluvial lands of southern Mesopotamia.... |
God name "Tammuz" | Shumerian | A Sumerian shepherd-god |
Goddess name "Tiamat" | Babylonian | The primordial mother goddess in Babylonian and Sumerian mythology, and a central figure in the Enuma Elish creation epic. |
Goddess name "Uras" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Chthonic earth goddess. One of the named consorts of the sky god AN and the mother of NIN'INSINNA.... |
God name "Utnapishtim" | Sumerian | Utnapishtim is the wise king of the Sumerian city state of Shuruppak who, along with his wife, survived a great flood sent by Enlil to drown every living thing on earth. Utnapishtim was secretly warned by the water god Ea of Enlil's planned and constructed a great boat or ark to save himself, his family and representatives of each species of animal. |
Goddess name "Uttu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | vegetation goddess and goddess of weaving. Not to be confused with UTU the Sun god, Uttu is a minor deity whose father is ENKI. According to legend, Enki first impregnated the mother goddess NINHURSAG A, whose nine-day gestation produced the goddess NIN-S'AR. She in turn was impregnated by Enki and, after a similar nine-day gestation, gave birth to the goddess NINKURRA. Through the same procedure with her grandfather, Ninkurra conceived the goddess Uttu. She is depicted as the goddess of weaving and of spiders.... |
God name "mm" | Mesopotamian | storm god. The cuneiform generally taken to refer to a storm god and therefore probably meaning either IS KUR (Sumerian) or ADAD (Akkadian).... |