| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Bethel" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | Local tutelary god. Probably of Aramaean or Syrian origin. First mentioned in a fourteenth century treaty between the Hittite king Suppiluliuma and Nigmadu II of Ugarit [Ras Samra]. He appears more regularly on inscriptions from the end of the seventh century BC and enjoyed considerable popularity during the neo-Babylonian period. Bethel is mentioned in the Biblical text of Jeremiah 48.13, implying that some Israelites acknowledged this deity. There is no evidence of links with the historical place names, including that mentioned in Genesis 38.13.... |
| God name "Birdu" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor chthonic underworld god. Consort of MANUNGAL and syncretized with NERGAL.... |
| God name "Buriyas" | Kassite / Iran | Tutelary war god. He was invoked by the Kåśśite armies which overthrew Babylonia in the sixteenth century BC.... |
| 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.... |
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