Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Aya" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian Akkadian | Mother goddess. Derived from the Sumerian model of S ERIDA. Consort of the Sun god S AMAS whose marriage was celebrated at New Year in Babylon.... |
Goddess name "Baba" | Sumeria | Goddess of healing and fertility. Sumeria |
Goddess name "Baba" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Fertility goddess. Locally worshiped in Lagas, where Gudea built her a temple. Also Bau.... |
Goddess name "Bau" | Sumeria | Goddess of fertility, depicted with the head of a dog, and her name means 'bark', 'woof'. Bau was known as the patron deity of Lagash. Sumeria |
Goddess name "Bel" | Akkadian | Bel became especially used of the Babylonian god Marduk and when found in Assyrian and neo-Babylonian personal names or mentioned in inscriptions in Mesoptamian context it can usually be taken as referring to Marduk and no other god. Similarly Belit without some disambiguation mostly refers to Bel Marduk's spouse Sarpanit. However Marduk's mother, the Sumerian goddess called Ninhursag, Ningal and Ninmah and other names in Sumerian, was often known as Belit-ili 'Lady of the Gods' in Akkadian. |
Goddess name "Damaannrna" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Mother goddess. She first appears as a consort of ENLIL and, as Mesopotamian traditions progress, becomes åśśociated with EA and the mother of the Babylonian god MARDUK. Also DAMKINA (Akkadian).... |
Goddess name "Damgalnuna" | Babylon / Akkadia / Sumeria | Mother goddess who whelped Marduk. Babylon / Akkadia / Sumeria |
Goddess name "Damkina" | Babylon / Akkadia / Sumeria | earth mother goddess and consort of Ea. Babylon / Akkadia / Sumeria |
God name "Damu" | Sumeria | God of exorcism. Sumeria |
Goddess name "Dazimus" | Sumeria | Goddess of healing. Sumeria |
God name "Dilmun" | Sumeria | God of fresh water Sumeria |
Demon name "Dimme" | Sumeria | Female demon of fever and and diseases of infants. There were seven evil spirits of this kind, who were apparently regarded as being daughters of Anu, the god of the heavens. Sumeria |
God name "Dumuzi" | Sumeria | A shepherd god & the Jewish Tammuz |
Goddess name "Duttur" | Sumeria | Goddess of ewes. Sumeria |
God name "Eikimdu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | God of canals and ditches. In creation mythology he is given his task by the god ENKI. See also ENBILULU.... |
God name "Eimesarra" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Chthonic god of the law. According to texts he controls the me's or Divine rules.... |
God name "Emes" | Sumeria | God of vegetation. Sumeria |
God name "Emes" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | vegetation god. Emes was created at the wish of ENLIL to take responsibility on earth for woods, fields, sheep folds and stables. He is identified with the abundance of the earth and with summer. An unidentified deity who is depicted iconographically with a plough may well be Emes.... |