| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Gilgamesh" | Greek | A demigod of superhuman strength who built a great wall to defend his people from external threats, a sort of Sumerian equivalent to the Greek Heracles. |
| God name "Giszida" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / BabylonianAkkadian | God. See Nin-giszida. See also NINGISZIDA.... |
| Goddess name "Gubarra" | Sumerian | Fire goddess. Sumerian |
| Goddess name "Gugulanna" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Minor underworld deity. The consort of the goddess ERESiKIGAL, mentioned as the pretext on which the fertility goddess INANA descends to the netherworld.... |
| 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.... |
| God name "Gusilim (loud voice)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | God. See also ISTARAN.... |
| God name "Hahanu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of uncertain function. Known from påśśing reference in texts and from inscriptions.... |
| God name "Hanis" | Sumerian | A small-time god who, along with Sullat will escort Adad when he brings the flood. Sumerian |
| God name "Hayasum" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor god. Known from texts, but of uncertain function.... |
| God name "Hendursaga" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of the law. He was titled by Gudea of Lagas herald of the land of Sumer.... |
| God name "Huban" | Elamite / Iran | Tutelary god. Equating with the Sumerian ENLIL.... |
| God name "IS KUR" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Iraq | storm god. The chief Rain and thunder god of herdsmen, Iskur is described as the brother of the Sun god UTU. In creation mythology Iskur is given charge over the winds, the so-called silver lock of the heart of heaven, by the god ENKI. According to some authors, in prehistoric times he was perceived as a bull or as a lion whose roar is the thunder. He may be depicted as a warrior riding across the skies in a chariot, dispensing Raindrops and hailstones. In one text he is identified as the son of AN and twin brother of Enki. He is to be compared with NINURTA who was primarily a god of farmers. He was also adopted by the Hittites as a storm god.... |
| God name "Igigi" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Collective name of a clåśś of gods. The group of younger sky gods in the pantheon headed by ENLIL (ELLIL). They are often described in the texts in conjunction with the ANUNNAKI.... |
| Goddess name "Inana, Istar,Ishtar" | Akkadian / Sumerian | The most important of all Mesopotamian goddesses, and a multi-faceted personality, occurring in cuneiform texts of all periods. The Sumerian name probably means "Lady of heaven";, and the Akkadian name Ishtar is related to the Syrian Astarte and the biblical Ashtaroth is usually considered as a daughter of Anzu, with her cult located in Uruk, but there are other traditions as to her ancestry, and it is probable that these reflect originally different goddesses that were identified with her. Ishtar is the subiect of a cycle of texts describing her love affair and ultimately fatal relationship with Tammuz. |
| Goddess name "Inanna" | Mesopotamia | Inana, the original "Holy Virgin," as the Sumerians called her, is the first known divinity åśśociated with the planet Venus. This Sumerian goddess became identified with the Semitic goddesses Ishtar and later Astarte, Egyptian Isis, Greek Aphrodite, Etruscan Turan and the Roman Venus. Mesopotamia |
| God name "Isimud" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Messenger god. Readily identified by possessing two faces looking in opposite directions, Isimud is the messenger of the god ENKI. Also Isinu; Usumu (Akkadian).... |
| God name "Istaran" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Local god. The tutelary god of the city of Der, east of the river Tigris in northern Babylonia. Also GUSILIM.... |
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