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Adad
Babylonian god of storms and wind
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Adapa
a Babylonian demigod or first man (sometimes identified with Adam)
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Anshar
the Babylonian father of the gods; identified with Assyrian Ashur; in Sumerian the name signifies `the totality of the upper world'
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Antum
Babylonian consort of Anu
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Anu
Babylonian god of the sky; one of the supreme triad including Bel and Ea
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Apsu
father of the gods and consort of Tiamat
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Aruru
mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic; identified with Sumerian Ki and Ninkhursag
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Ashir
chief god of the Assyrians; god of military prowess and empire; identified with Babylonian Anshar
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Ashtoreth
an ancient Phoenician goddess of love and fertility; the Phoenician counterpart to Ishtar
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Mylitta
Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte
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Baal
any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples; the Hebrews considered Baal a false god
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Bel
Babylonian god of the earth; one of the supreme triad including Anu and Ea; earlier identified with En-lil
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Dagon
god of agriculture and the earth; national god of Philistines
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Dagan
god of agriculture and earth; counterpart of Phoenician Dagon
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Damgalnunna
(Babylonian) earth goddess; consort of Ea and mother of Marduk
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Dumuzi
Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna
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Ea
the Babylonian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki; as one of the supreme triad including Anu and Bel he was assigned control of the watery element
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Enki
water god and god of wisdom; counterpart of the Akkadian Ea
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En-lil
god of the air and king of the Sumerian gods
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Eresh-kigal
goddess of death and consort of Nergal
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Girru
the Babylonian god of fire; often invoked in incantations against sorcery
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Gula
the Babylonian goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta
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Igigi
any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu
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Inanna
consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz)
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Ki
goddess personifying earth; counterpart of Akkadian Aruru
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Kishar
Babylonian consort of Anshar; in Sumerian the name signifies `the totality of the lower world'
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Mama
a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped
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Baal Merodach
the chief Babylonian god; his consort was Sarpanitu
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Molech
god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children
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Nabu
Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools
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Nammu
goddess personifying the primeval sea; mother of the gods and of heaven and earth
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Namtaru
a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind
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Nanna
god of the Moon; counterpart of the Akkadian Sin
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Nergal
(Akkadian) god ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead
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Nina
the Babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea
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Ningal
(Akkadian) a goddess; wife of the Moon god Sin
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Ningirsu
Babylonian god in older pantheon: god of war and agriculture
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Ningishzida
an underworld Babylonian deity; patron of medicine
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Ninkharsag
the great mother goddess; worshipped also as Aruru and Mama and Nintu
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Nintoo
a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped
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Ninurta
a solar deity; firstborn of Bel and consort was Gula; god of war and the chase and agriculture; sometimes identified with biblical Nimrod
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Nusku
god of fire and light; corresponds to Babylonian Girru
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Ramman
god of storms and wind; corresponds to Babylonian Adad
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Sarpanitu
consort of Marduk
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Shamash
the chief sun god; drives away winter and storms and brightens the earth with greenery; drives away evil and brings justice and compassion
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Sin
(Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna
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Tashmitum
consort of Nabu
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Tiamat
(Akkadian) mother of the gods and consort of Apsu
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Utnapishtim
favorite of the gods and grandfather of Gilgamish; survived the great flood and became immortal
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Utug
sun god; counterpart of Akkadian Shamash
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Zubird
evil storm god represented as a black bird