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Enūma Eliš and List of Mesopotamian deities

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Enūma Eliš vs. List of Mesopotamian deities

(Akkadian Cuneiform:, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), meaning "When on High", is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words) from the late 2nd millennium BCE and the only complete surviving account of ancient near eastern cosmology. Deities in ancient Mesopotamia were almost exclusively anthropomorphic.

Similarities between Enūma Eliš and List of Mesopotamian deities

Enūma Eliš and List of Mesopotamian deities have 46 things in common (in Unionpedia): Abzu, Akkadian language, Amurru (god), An = Anum, Anshar, Anu, Anunnaki, Aruru (goddess), Ashur (god), Atra-Hasis, Babylon, Babylonia, Babylonian captivity, Berossus, Creation myth, Damgalnuna, Elam, Enki, Enlil, Eridu, Esagila, Esarhaddon, Euphrates, Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh flood myth, Hammurabi, Igigi, Kakka, Kishar, Lahmu, ..., Library of Ashurbanipal, Marduk, Monotheism, Nabu, Nebuchadnezzar II, Neo-Babylonian Empire, Nineveh, Sargon II, Seleucid Empire, Sennacherib, Sumerian language, Tashmetum, Tiamat, Tiglath-Pileser III, Tigris, Yahweh. Expand index (16 more) »

Abzu

The Abzu or Apsu (Sumerian: 𒀊𒍪; Akkadian: 𒀊𒍪), also called (Cuneiform:,; Sumerian:; Akkadian: —.

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Akkadian language

Akkadian (translit)John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.

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Amurru (god)

Amurru, also known under the Sumerian name Martu (in Sumerian and Sumerograms: 𒀭𒈥𒌅), was a Mesopotamian god who served as the divine personification of the Amorites.

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An = Anum

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Anshar

Anshar (𒀭𒊹, 𒀭𒊹) was a Mesopotamian god regarded as a primordial king of the gods.

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Anu

Anu (𒀭𒀭, from 𒀭 an "Sky", "Heaven") or Anum, originally An (𒀭), was the divine personification of the sky, king of the gods, and ancestor of many of the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion.

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Anunnaki

The Anunnaki (Sumerian:, also transcribed as Anunaki, Annunaki, Anunna, Ananaki and other variations) are a group of deities of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians.

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Aruru (goddess)

Aruru was a Mesopotamian goddess.

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Ashur (god)

Ashur, Ashshur, also spelled Ašur, Aššur (𒀭𒊹|translit.

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Atra-Hasis

Atra-Hasis (𒀜𒊏𒄩𒋀|Atra-ḫasīs) is an 18th-century BC Akkadian epic, recorded in various versions on clay tablets, named for its protagonist, Atrahasis ('exceedingly wise').

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Babylon

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.

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Babylonia

Babylonia (𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran).

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Babylonian captivity

The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile was the period in Jewish history during which a large number of Judeans from the ancient Kingdom of Judah were forcibly relocated to Babylonia by the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

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Berossus

Berossus or Berosus (translit; possibly derived from 𒁹𒀭𒂗𒉺𒇻𒋙𒉡|translit.

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Creation myth

A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.

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Damgalnuna

Damgalnuna, also known as Damkina, was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of the god Enki.

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Elam

Elam (Linear Elamite: hatamti; Cuneiform Elamite:; Sumerian:; Akkadian:; עֵילָם ʿēlām; 𐎢𐎺𐎩 hūja) was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Province as well as a small part of southern Iraq.

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Enki

Enki (𒀭𒂗𒆠) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki.

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Enlil

Enlil, later known as Elil and Ellil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms.

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Eridu

Eridu (𒆠|translit.

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Esagila

The Ésagila or Esangil (𒂍𒊕𒅍𒆷, "temple whose top is lofty") was a temple dedicated to Marduk, the protector god of Babylon.

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Esarhaddon

Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (𒀭𒊹𒉽𒀸, also 𒀭𒊹𒉽𒋧𒈾, meaning "Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sennacherib in 681 BC to his own death in 669.

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Euphrates

The Euphrates (see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.

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Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh (𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦|translit.

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Gilgamesh flood myth

The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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Hammurabi

Hammurabi (𒄩𒄠𒈬𒊏𒁉|translit.

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Igigi

Igigi are the mythological figures of heaven in the mythology of Mesopotamia.

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Kakka

Kakka (also romanized as Kaka or Gaga) was a Mesopotamian deity.

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Kishar

In the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, Kishar (Kišar.) is the daughter of Abzu and Lahmu, the first children of Tiamat and Abzu.

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Lahmu

Laḫmu (or, d laḫ-mu) is a class of apotropaic creatures from Mesopotamian mythology.

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Library of Ashurbanipal

The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BCE, including texts in various languages.

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Marduk

Marduk (Cuneiform: ᵈAMAR.UTU; Sumerian: "calf of the sun; solar calf") is a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon who eventually rose to power in the First Millennium BC.

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Monotheism

Monotheism is the belief that one god is the only deity.

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Nabu

Nabu (cuneiform: 𒀭𒀝 Nabû, Nəḇo) is the Babylonian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom.

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Nebuchadnezzar II

Nebuchadnezzar II (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir"; Biblical Hebrew: Nəḇūḵaḏneʾṣṣar), also spelled Nebuchadrezzar II, was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to his own death in 562 BC.

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Neo-Babylonian Empire

The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia until Faisal II in the 20th century.

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Nineveh

Nineveh (𒌷𒉌𒉡𒀀, URUNI.NU.A, Ninua; נִינְוֵה, Nīnəwē; نَيْنَوَىٰ, Naynawā; ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē), also known in early modern times as Kouyunjik, was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

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Sargon II

Sargon II (𒈗𒁺|translit.

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Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire (lit) was a Greek power in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.

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Sennacherib

Sennacherib (𒀭𒌍𒉽𒈨𒌍𒋢|translit.

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Sumerian language

Sumerian (Also written 𒅴𒄀 eme-gi.ePSD2 entry for emegir.|'native language'|) was the language of ancient Sumer.

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Tashmetum

Tashmetum (dtaš-me-tum, Tašmētum) was a Mesopotamian goddess.

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Tiamat

In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat (𒀭𒋾𒊩𒆳 or, Thaláttē) is the primordial sea, mating with Abzû (Apsu), the groundwater, to produce the gods in the Babylonian epic Enûma Elish, which translates as "when on high".

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Tiglath-Pileser III

Tiglath-Pileser III (𒆪𒋾𒀀𒂍𒈗𒊏|translit.

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Tigris

The Tigris (see below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates.

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Yahweh

Yahweh was an ancient Levantine deity, and the national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah, later the god of Judaism and its other descendant Abrahamic religions.

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Enūma Eliš and List of Mesopotamian deities Comparison

Enūma Eliš has 107 relations, while List of Mesopotamian deities has 461. As they have in common 46, the Jaccard index is 8.10% = 46 / (107 + 461).

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