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The names of over 3,000 Mesopotamian deities have been recovered from cuneiform texts. [19] [16] Many of these are from lengthy lists of deities compiled by ancient Mesopotamian scribes. [19] [20] The longest of these lists is a text entitled An = Anum, a Babylonian scholarly work listing the names of over 2,000 deities.
Many Babylonian deities, myths, and religious writings are singular to that culture; for example, the uniquely Babylonian deity, Marduk, replaced Enlil as the head of the mythological pantheon. The Enûma Eliš, a creation myth epic was an original Babylonian work.
Jul 11, 2023 · Marduk is considered to be the primary deity of Babylonia and one of the most central figures in the Mesopotamian religion. Marduk was considered to be the national God of Babylonia and was often simply called “Lord”. In the early stages of his cult, Marduk was viewed as a god of thunderstorms.
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Mesopotamian religion, beliefs and practices of the Sumerians and Akkadians, and their successors, the Babylonians and Assyrians, who inhabited ancient Mesopotamia (now in Iraq) in the millennia before the Christian era. These religious beliefs and practices form a single stream of tradition.
- Thorkild Jacobsen
Feb 25, 2011 · One of the oldest gods in Mesopotamia, she was once a primary deity who, in time, assumed a subordinate role as consort to the sun god, Utu. She was known, in this capacity, to the Akkadians and Babylonians as Aja (or Aya) the goddess of dawn.
- Joshua J. Mark
Feb 11, 2024 · It was created as an artificial mountain raising the clergy who officiated at rituals and festivals closer to the gods. Male deities replaced many female deities during the reign of Hammurabi of Babylon (1792-1750 BCE) and remained more popular through the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 612 BCE.
Marduk, in Mesopotamian religion, the chief god of the city of Babylon and the national god of Babylonia; as such, he was eventually called simply Bel, or Lord. Originally, he seems to have been a god of thunderstorms. A poem, known as Enuma elish and dating from the reign of Nebuchadrezzar I.
