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" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Fertility goddess. Locally worshiped in Lagas, where Gudea built her a temple. Also Bau.... |
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. |
God name "Bel" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Generic title meaning lord. The Babylonian god MARDUK was often addressed as Bel, and the name occurs in the Vetus Testamentum. The New Year festival of akitu in Babylon included a ceremony of leading Bel by the hand. The name also appears at Palmyra as the tutelary creator god whose attributes include lightning and an eagle.... |
Goddess name "Belet-Ili (lady of tbe gods)" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Mother goddess. Known in Babylon and probably modeled on NINHURSAG A.... |
Goddess name "Belet-Seri" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Chthonic underworld goddess. The recorder of the dead entering the otherworld. Known as the Scribe of the earth.... |
Goddess name "Belili" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess. See GES TIN-ANA.... |
Goddess name "Beltiya (my lady)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Generic title of goddess. ZARPANITUM (SARPANITUM), the consort of the Babylonian god MARDUK, is often addressed as Beltiya.... |
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 "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.... |
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 "Endursaga (lofty mace)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Herald god. He leads the Sumerian pantheon particularly in times of conflict. Also IS UM (Akkadian).... |