Similarities between Gilgamesh and Inanna
Gilgamesh and Inanna have 45 things in common (in Unionpedia): Akkadian language, Ancient Mesopotamian Underworld, Anu, Anzû, Aphrodite, Assyria, Assyrian people, British Museum, Bull of Heaven, Canto, Cuneiform script, Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia), East Semitic languages, Edward FitzGerald (poet), Edwin Arnold, Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Enki, Enkidu, Enlil, Epic of Gilgamesh, Eshnunna, Euphrates, First Babylonian dynasty, Humbaba, Inanna, Incest, Jesus, Lagash, Library of Ashurbanipal, Lilith, ..., Lion, Lugalbanda, Nineveh, Ninsun, Old Testament, Patriarchy, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumer, Tanakh, The Light of Asia, Third Dynasty of Ur, Uruk, Utnapishtim, Utu. Expand index (15 more) »
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.
Akkadian language and Gilgamesh · Akkadian language and Inanna ·
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".
Ancient Mesopotamian Underworld and Gilgamesh · Ancient Mesopotamian Underworld and Inanna ·
Anu
Anu (𒀭𒀭, Anu‹m› or Ilu) or An (𒀭, from 𒀭 an "Sky, Heaven") is the divine personification of the sky, supreme God, and ancestor of all the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion.
Anu and Gilgamesh · Anu and Inanna ·
Anzû
Anzû, also known as dZû and Imdugud (Sumerian: AN.IM.DUGUDMUŠEN), is a lesser divinity or monster in several Mesopotamian religions.
Anzû and Gilgamesh · Anzû and Inanna ·
Aphrodite
Aphrodite is the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.
Aphrodite and Gilgamesh · Aphrodite and Inanna ·
Assyria
Assyria, also called the Assyrian Empire, was a major Semitic speaking Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East and the Levant.
Assyria and Gilgamesh · Assyria and Inanna ·
Assyrian people
Assyrian people (ܐܫܘܪܝܐ), or Syriacs (see terms for Syriac Christians), are an ethnic group indigenous to the Middle East.
Assyrian people and Gilgamesh · Assyrian people and Inanna ·
British Museum
The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.
British Museum and Gilgamesh · British Museum and Inanna ·
Bull of Heaven
In Tablet VI of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Bull of Heaven is a mythical beast that Ishtar demands from her father Anu in the Sumerian poem Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven after Gilgamesh repudiates her sexual advances.
Bull of Heaven and Gilgamesh · Bull of Heaven and Inanna ·
Canto
The canto is a principal form of division in medieval and modern long poetry.
Canto and Gilgamesh · Canto and Inanna ·
Cuneiform script
Cuneiform script, one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians.
Cuneiform script and Gilgamesh · Cuneiform script and Inanna ·
Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)
The Early Dynastic period (abbreviated ED period or ED) is an archaeological culture in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) that is generally dated to c. 2900–2350 BC and was preceded by the Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods.
Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia) and Gilgamesh · Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia) and Inanna ·
East Semitic languages
The East Semitic languages are one of six current divisions of the Semitic languages, the others being Northwest Semitic, Arabian, Old South Arabian (also known as Sayhadic), Modern South Arabian, and Ethio-Semitic.
East Semitic languages and Gilgamesh · East Semitic languages and Inanna ·
Edward FitzGerald (poet)
Edward FitzGerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883) was an English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Edward FitzGerald (poet) and Gilgamesh · Edward FitzGerald (poet) and Inanna ·
Edwin Arnold
Sir Edwin Arnold KCIE CSI (10 June 1832 – 24 March 1904) was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work The Light of Asia.
Edwin Arnold and Gilgamesh · Edwin Arnold and Inanna ·
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) is a project that provides an online digital library of texts and translations of Sumerian literature.
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature and Gilgamesh · Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature and Inanna ·
Enki
Enki (Sumerian: dEN.KI(G)) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), mischief, crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud).
Enki and Gilgamesh · Enki and Inanna ·
Enkidu
Enkidu (EN.KI.DU3, "Enki's creation"), formerly misread as Eabani, is a central figure in the Ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh.
Enkidu and Gilgamesh · Enkidu and Inanna ·
Enlil
Enlil, later known as Elil, was the ancient Mesopotamian god of wind, air, earth, and storms.
Enlil and Gilgamesh · Enlil and Inanna ·
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature.
Epic of Gilgamesh and Gilgamesh · Epic of Gilgamesh and Inanna ·
Eshnunna
Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar in Diyala Province, Iraq) was an ancient Sumerian (and later Akkadian) city and city-state in central Mesopotamia.
Eshnunna and Gilgamesh · Eshnunna and Inanna ·
Euphrates
The Euphrates (Sumerian: Buranuna; 𒌓𒄒𒉣 Purattu; الفرات al-Furāt; ̇ܦܪܬ Pǝrāt; Եփրատ: Yeprat; פרת Perat; Fırat; Firat) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.
Euphrates and Gilgamesh · Euphrates and Inanna ·
First Babylonian dynasty
The chronology of the first dynasty of Babylonia (also First Babylonian Empire) is debated as there is a Babylonian King List A and a Babylonian King List B. In this chronology, the regnal years of List A are used due to their wide usage.
First Babylonian dynasty and Gilgamesh · First Babylonian dynasty and Inanna ·
Humbaba
In Ancient Mesopotamian religion, Humbaba (Assyrian spelling), also spelled Huwawa (Sumerian spelling) and surnamed the Terrible, was a monstrous giant of immemorial age raised by Utu, the Sun.
Gilgamesh and Humbaba · Humbaba and Inanna ·
Inanna
Inanna was the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, combat, justice, and political power.
Gilgamesh and Inanna · Inanna and Inanna ·
Incest
Incest is sexual activity between family members or close relatives.
Gilgamesh and Incest · Inanna and Incest ·
Jesus
Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
Gilgamesh and Jesus · Inanna and Jesus ·
Lagash
Lagash (cuneiform: LAGAŠKI; Sumerian: Lagaš) is an ancient city located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk, about east of the modern town of Ash Shatrah, Iraq.
Gilgamesh and Lagash · Inanna and Lagash ·
Library of Ashurbanipal
The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, is a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC.
Gilgamesh and Library of Ashurbanipal · Inanna and Library of Ashurbanipal ·
Lilith
Lilith (לִילִית Lîlîṯ) is a figure in Jewish mythology, developed earliest in the Babylonian Talmud (3rd to 5th centuries).
Gilgamesh and Lilith · Inanna and Lilith ·
Lion
The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the cat family (Felidae).
Gilgamesh and Lion · Inanna and Lion ·
Lugalbanda
Lugalbanda (𒈗𒌉𒁕, young/fierce king) is a character found in Sumerian mythology and literature.
Gilgamesh and Lugalbanda · Inanna and Lugalbanda ·
Nineveh
Nineveh (𒌷𒉌𒉡𒀀 URUNI.NU.A Ninua); ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq.
Gilgamesh and Nineveh · Inanna and Nineveh ·
Ninsun
In Sumerian mythology, Ninsun or Ninsumun (cuneiform: dNIN.SUMUN2; Sumerian: Nin-sumun(ak) "lady of the wild cows") is a goddess, best known as the mother of the legendary hero Gilgamesh, and as the tutelary goddess of Gudea of Lagash.
Gilgamesh and Ninsun · Inanna and Ninsun ·
Old Testament
The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is the first part of Christian Bibles, based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh), a collection of ancient religious writings by the Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God.
Gilgamesh and Old Testament · Inanna and Old Testament ·
Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.
Gilgamesh and Patriarchy · Inanna and Patriarchy ·
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".
Gilgamesh and Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam · Inanna and Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ·
Samuel Noah Kramer
Samuel Noah Kramer (September 28, 1897 – November 26, 1990) was one of the world's leading Assyriologists and a world-renowned expert in Sumerian history and Sumerian language.
Gilgamesh and Samuel Noah Kramer · Inanna and Samuel Noah Kramer ·
Sumer
SumerThe name is from Akkadian Šumeru; Sumerian en-ĝir15, approximately "land of the civilized kings" or "native land".
Gilgamesh and Sumer · Inanna and Sumer ·
Tanakh
The Tanakh (or; also Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach), also called the Mikra or Hebrew Bible, is the canonical collection of Jewish texts, which is also a textual source for the Christian Old Testament.
Gilgamesh and Tanakh · Inanna and Tanakh ·
The Light of Asia
The Light of Asia, subtitled The Great Renunciation, is a book by Sir Edwin Arnold.
Gilgamesh and The Light of Asia · Inanna and The Light of Asia ·
Third Dynasty of Ur
The terms "Third Dynasty of Ur" and "Neo-Sumerian Empire" refer to both a 22nd to 21st century BC (middle chronology) Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and a short-lived territorial-political state which some historians consider to have been a nascent empire.
Gilgamesh and Third Dynasty of Ur · Inanna and Third Dynasty of Ur ·
Uruk
Uruk (Cuneiform: URUUNUG; Sumerian: Unug; Akkadian: Uruk; وركاء,; Aramaic/Hebrew:; Orḥoē, Ὀρέχ Oreḥ, Ὠρύγεια Ōrugeia) was an ancient city of Sumer (and later of Babylonia), situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the dried-up, ancient channel of the Euphrates, some 30 km east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq.
Gilgamesh and Uruk · Inanna and Uruk ·
Utnapishtim
Utnapishtim or Utanapishtim (𒌓𒍣) is a character in the Epic of Gilgamesh who is tasked by Enki (Ea) to abandon his worldly possessions and create a giant ship to be called Preserver of Life.
Gilgamesh and Utnapishtim · Inanna and Utnapishtim ·
Utu
Utu later worshipped by East Semitic peoples as Shamash, was the ancient Mesopotamian god of the sun, justice, morality, and truth, and the twin brother of the goddess Inanna, the Queen of Heaven.
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Gilgamesh and Inanna Comparison
Gilgamesh has 183 relations, while Inanna has 275. As they have in common 45, the Jaccard index is 9.83% = 45 / (183 + 275).
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