Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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 |
Goddess name "Is'ara" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian / / western Semitic | Goddess of marriage and childbirth. Also a deity concerned with the enforcing of oaths. Known chiefly from early inscriptions and some Akkadian texts. Her Mesopotamian cult center was the Babylonian town of Kisurra, but she is also thought to have been worshiped across a wide area among Syrians, Canaanites and Hittites. Her symbol is the scorpion. Also Es ara.... |
Goddess name "Isara" | Semitic | Goddess of marriage and childbirth who dealt with the enforcement of oaths. Semitic |
God name "Khusor" | Semitic | God of navigation and incantations Semitic |
God name "Kinnar" | Semitic | And musician god Semitic(West) |
God name "Kinnar (divine lyre)" | Western Semitic | Musician god. Mentioned in Ugaritic texts and known from Phoenicia. Probably equating with the Syrian ADONIS. Also Kinnur.... |
God name "Kotar" | Western Semitic / Syrian | Blacksmith god. Identified in the Ugaritic (Ras Samra) texts as building a palace for the god BAAL and forging his weapons for the conflict against the sea god YAMM. Known also from Phoenician inscriptions. Also Kosar, Chusor, KINYRAS.... |
Goddess name "Liluri" | Western Semitic / Syrian | mountain goddess. The consort of the weather god Manuzi, her sacred animal is the bull.... |
God name "Malik" | Arabic | Tutelary god, this name is found among other Semitic people and used as a designator for a god Arabic |
Goddess name "Manawat" | Semitic | Goddess of destiny Semitic(West) |
Goddess name "Manawat" | Western Semitic / Nabataean | Goddess of destiny. Mentioned in a large number of inscriptions.... |
God name "Martu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Tutelary god. The patron god of the city of Ninab mentioned in the texts but never re-discovered. Probably not a true Sumerian deity but adopted from an unknown western Semitic culture. He is sometimes identified as a storm god.... |
God name "Mikal" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | Local god. The cult was followed strongly on Cyprus. Some authorities believe he was invoked as a plague god.... |
God name "Mikal aka Resheph" | Semitic | A Semitic god of plague and war. He bore the head of a gazelle on his forehead and was an important member of the pantheon of Ugarit though not mentioned in Ugaritic mythological texts. |
God name "Milkastart" | Semitic | Local tutelary god of the from Umm el-Ammend Semitic(West) |
God name "Milkastart" | Western Semitic | Local tutelary god. Known only from Umm el-Ammed where his cult apparently co-existed with that of BAAL SAPON. One of two major temples built at Umm el-Ammed in the third century BC was probably dedicated to milkASTART, and the name is regarded as a syncretization of MELQART and ASTARTE.... |
Deities name "Milkom" | Western Semitic / Ammonite | Tutelary god. One of the deities mentioned in the Vetus Testamentum (1 kings 11.5) as being worshiped by the Israelite king Solomon. Also Milcom.... |
God name "Milom" | Amorite | God mentioned in 1 king 11:5 worshipped by king Solomon Amorite / Semitic(West) |