Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Birdu" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor chthonic underworld god. Consort of MANUNGAL and syncretized with NERGAL.... |
God name "Dagan (1)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Grain and fertility god. Generally linked with ANU in giving status to cities e.g. the dedications by the ninth-century BC Assyrian king Assur-nasir-apli at Kalakh. Cult centers existed at Tuttul and Terqa.... |
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 "Damkina" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess. Consort of Ea.See also DAMGALNUNA.... |
God name "Dumu-zi" | Babylonian | Child of life. A god of the Sun. Babylonian |
Deity name "Dumu-zi-zuab" | Babylonian | A local deity. Nebo, under this name, is described as a son of the deep. Babylonian |
Deity name "Dun-shagga" | Babylonian | A local deity. Babylonian |
God name "Dur" | Kassite / Iran | Chthonic underworld god. Equates with the Babylonian-Akkadian god NERGAL.... |
God name "Eimesarra" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Chthonic god of the law. According to texts he controls the me's or Divine rules.... |
Demon name "Ekimmu" | Babylonian | demons that infest the graves. Babylonian |
God name "Ellel" | Hittite / Hurrian | Creator god. Derived from the Babylonian-Akkadian god ELLIL.... |
God name "Ellil" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Creator god. See also ENLIL.... |
God name "Enbilulu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | River god. In creation mythology he is placed in charge of the sacred rivers Tigris and Euphrates by the god ENKI. He is also god of canals, irrigation and farming. In Babylonian times he becomes the son of EA and is syncretized with ADAD.... |
God name "Enki aka Ea" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria | A deity later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology, originally chief God of the city of Eridu. Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
God name "Ennugi" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / BabylonianAkkadian | God. The attendant and throne-bearer of ENLIL (ELLIL).... |
God name "Enzu" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God. The name is a corruption, apparently a misreading of Suen, the archaic form of SIN.... |
God name "Erra" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian Akkadian | God of war. Known chiefly from the Erra Epic, circa 1000 BC, he is also the god of raids, riots and scorched earth. Closely identified with the god NERGAL, his cult center is Emeslam in the city of Kutha (lost). In Babylonian times he is identified as a plague god.... |
Deity name "Gad" | Babylonian | The pan-Semitic deity of fortune worshipped during the babylonian captivity. |