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- Nanna, also called Sîn (or Suen) was a Sumerian god who played a longstanding role in Mesopotamian religion and mythology. He was the god of ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 08:45, 9 October 2022
- was the name of a major Mesopotamian deity. In early Sumerian inscriptions ... Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite, and other Mesopotamian clay and stone tablets ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- Ereshkigal (lit. "Great Lady under the Earth") was the goddess of the land of the dead, the Underworld, in Mesopotamian mythology. ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- which revealed much about ancient Mesopotamian culture, including Queen ... In 1937, Woolley started to search for the link between Mesopotamian ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- * Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976. ISBN 9780300018448 ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- Erech) in the earliest period of Mesopotamian history. Incantations ... were constructed in each of the great Mesopotamian cultural centers: ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- Enûma Eliš (also transliterated Enuma Elish) is the Babylonian or Mesopotamian creation epic, composed probably in the eighteenth century B ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- P.R.S. Moorey, Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries (Eisenbrauns ... * Moorey, P.R.S. Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries. Eisenbrauns ...10 KB (1,745 words) - 23:46, 2 December 2022
- Yam's defeat by Baal parallels the Mesopotamian legend of the ... definite similarities with the older Mesopotamian deities Tiamat and Apsu ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- brought about significant changes in Mesopotamian civilization. From 2000 ... They appear as nomadic people in the Mesopotamian sources, and they are ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- In Mesopotamian religion Shamash was the Akkadian name of the sun god, corresponding to Sumerian Utu. In mythology, Shamash was the son of the ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- ancient city-states that dotted the Mesopotamian plain and waged war on ... across the Zagros Mountains, invaded the Mesopotamian plain. ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- possible that this word in fact comes from the Mesopotamian word for Centaurus, the constellation that in Mesopotamian culture depicted an epic battle ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- One of the oldest of the Mesopotamian gods, Ninhursag both subsumed ... however, is not unusual in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, in which variants ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
- testifying to its popularity. Few Mesopotamian literary texts have boasted ... Enheduanna began a long tradition of Mesopotamian princesses serving ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- recovered in archaeological work at the Mesopotamian city of Ugarit. ... * Mesopotamian religion ==References== * Clay, Albert Tobias. Atrahasis: ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- ===References in Mesopotamian mythology=== Mythologists such as Joseph Campbell note that in early Mesopotamian ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- caduceus appeared not infrequently on Mesopotamian cylinder seals. He suggested ... on Hermes, makes no mention of any Mesopotamian origin and refers to the ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- been generally inherited from its older Mesopotamian counterparts. The original ... In this view, the Mesopotamian vision of the marriage between heaven ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- Ashtart, however, is clearly linked to the Mesopotamian Goddess Ishtar. Astarte/Ishtar differs from the Ugaritic Asherah, in that Ishtar shares none ...14 KB (2,179 words) - 04:03, 18 August 2023
