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Abu (god)
Abu in Sumerian religion was a minor god of plants.
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Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire was the first ancient Semitic-speaking empire of Mesopotamia, centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region, also called Akkad in ancient Mesopotamia in the Bible.
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Akkadian language
Akkadian (akkadû, ak-ka-du-u2; logogram: URIKI)John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.
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Ancient Mesopotamian Underworld
The ancient Mesopotamian Underworld, known in Sumerian as Kur and in Akkadian as Irkalla, was a dark, dreary cavern located deep below the ground, where inhabitants were believed to continue "a shadowy version of life on earth".
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Anunnaki
The Anunnaki (also transcribed as Anunaki, Anunna, Ananaki, and other variations) are a group of deities that appear in the mythological traditions of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, and Babylonians.
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Arura
Arura or (Greek: ἄρουρα), is a Homeric Greek word with original meaning "arable land", derived from the verb ἀρόω (aroō), "plough".
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Azimua
DAzimua was a goddess in Sumerian mythology, one of the eight deities born to relieve the illness of Enki.
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É (temple)
É (Cuneiform) is the Sumerian word or symbol for house or temple.
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Boundary marker
A boundary marker, border marker, boundary stone, or border stone is a robust physical marker that identifies the start of a land boundary or the change in a boundary, especially a change in direction of a boundary.
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Cylinder seal
A cylinder seal is a small round cylinder, typically about one inch in length, engraved with written characters or figurative scenes or both, used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface, generally wet clay.
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Dingir
Dingir (usually transliterated DIĜIR) is a Sumerian word for "god." Its cuneiform sign is most commonly employed as the determinative for religious names and related concepts, in which case it is not pronounced and is conventionally transliterated as a superscript "D" as in e.g. DInanna.
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Enûma Eliš
The (Akkadian Cuneiform:, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), is the Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words).
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Enki
Enki (Sumerian: dEN.KI(G)) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), mischief, crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud).
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Enshag
Enshag or Enshagag, in Sumerian mythology was one of the eight deities born to relieve the illness of Enki.
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Ereshkigal
In Mesopotamian mythology, Ereshkigal (lit. "Queen of the Great Earth") was the goddess of Kur, the land of the dead or underworld in Sumerian mythology.
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Eridu
Eridu (Sumerian:, NUN.KI/eridugki; Akkadian: irîtu; modern Arabic: Tell Abu Shahrain) is an archaeological site in southern Mesopotamia (modern Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq).
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Esagila
The Ésagila (𒂍𒊕𒅍𒆷, "temple whose top is lofty") was a temple dedicated to Marduk, the protector god of Babylon.
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Eve
Eve (Ḥawwā’; Syriac: ܚܘܐ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
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Fertility
Fertility is the natural capability to produce offspring.
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Hathor
Hathor (or; Egyptian:; in Ἅθωρ, meaning "mansion of Horus")Hathor and Thoth: two key figures of the ancient Egyptian religion, Claas Jouco Bleeker, pp.
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Hursag
Hursag is a Sumerian term variously translated as meaning "mountain", "hill", "foothills" or "piedmont".
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Ki (goddess)
Ki was the earth goddess in Sumerian mythology, chief consort of the sky god An.
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Kish (Sumer)
Kish (Sumerian: Kiš; transliteration: Kiški; cuneiform:; Akkadian: kiššatu) was an ancient tell (hill city) of Sumer in Mesopotamia, considered to have been located near the modern Tell al-Uhaymir in the Babil Governorate of Iraq, east of Babylon and 80 km south of Baghdad.
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List of fertility deities
A fertility deity is a god or goddess associated with sex, fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth.
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Mami (goddess)
Mami is a goddess in the Babylonian epic Atra-Hasis and in other creation legends.
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Mother goddess
A mother goddess is a goddess who represents, or is a personification of nature, motherhood, fertility, creation, destruction or who embodies the bounty of the Earth.
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Nammu
In Sumerian mythology, Nammu (also Namma, spelled ideographically 𒀭𒇉 dNAMMA.
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Nanshe
In Sumerian mythology, Nanshe (𒀭𒀏 dNANŠE) was the daughter of Enki (god of wisdom, magic and fresh water) and Ninhursag (earth and mother goddess).
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NIN (cuneiform)
The Sumerian word NIN (from the Akkadian pronunciation of the sign EREŠ) was used to denote a queen or a priestess, and is often translated as "lady".
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Ninhursag
Ninḫursaĝ, also known as Damgalnuna or Ninmah, was the ancient Sumerian mother goddess of the mountains, and one of the seven great deities of Sumer.
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Ninkasi
Ninkasi is the ancient Sumerian tutelary goddess of beer.
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Ninkurra
In Sumerian mythology, Ninkurra (Lady Pasture) was a minor mother goddess, daughter of Enki and Ninsar.
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Ninsar
In Sumerian mythology, Ninsar (from Nin.
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Ninsutu
Ninsutu (also known as Ninkautu) was a goddess in Sumerian mythology, one of the eight deities born to relieve the illness of Enki.
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Ninti
Ninti is the Sumerian goddess of life.
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Nintulla
Nintulla or Nintul was a god in Sumerian mythology, and one of the eight deities born to relieve the illness of Enki.
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Ninurta
Ninurta, also known as Ningirsu, was a Mesopotamian god of farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war who was first worshipped in early Sumer.
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Omega
Omega (capital: Ω, lowercase: ω; Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet.
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Sumer
SumerThe name is from Akkadian Šumeru; Sumerian en-ĝir15, approximately "land of the civilized kings" or "native land".
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Sumerian language
Sumerian (𒅴𒂠 "native tongue") is the language of ancient Sumer and a language isolate that was spoken in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).
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Tutelary deity
A tutelary (also tutelar) is a deity or spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation.
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Uttu
Uttu was the ancient Sumerian goddess of weaving.
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Vegetation deity
A vegetation deity is a nature deity whose disappearance and reappearance, or life, death and rebirth, embodies the growth cycle of plants.
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2nd millennium BC
The 2nd millennium BC spanned the years 2000 through 1001 BC.
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30th century BC
The 30th century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3000 BC to 2901 BC.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninhursag
