All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Mesopotamian deities"
Parent categories: Ancient Near East, Gods, Mesopotamian mythology, Ancient Asia, Ancient history, Religion, Mythology, History of Asia, History, Culture, Asia, Society, Earth, Eurasia, Nature
Total 42 word senses
- Adad (Proper name) [English] The god of storms in Mesopotamian mythology.
- Adad (Proper name) [Portuguese] Adad (god of storms)
- Anu (Proper name) [Portuguese] Anu (god of heaven)
- Aya (Proper name) [English] In Akkadian mythology, a mother goddess, consort of the sun god Shamash.
- Enbilulugugal (Proper name) [English] One of the three aspects of the god Enbilulu, as the power presiding over growth and abundance.
- Enki (Proper name) [English] A god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.
- Enlil (Proper name) [English] A chief deity listed and written about in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite and other Mesopotamian clay and stone tablets; the god of breath, wind, loft, and breadth.
- Ereshkigal (Proper name) [English] The goddess of the underworld.
- Inanna (Proper name) [English] A Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, known by the Akkadians as Ishtar and later identified with Astarte, Aphrodite, and Venus.
- Ishtar (Proper name) [English] A goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.
- Isztar (Proper name) [Polish] Ishtar (Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war)
- Nanna (Proper name) [English] The god of the moon in Sumerian mythology.
- Nanna-Suen (Proper name) [English] Synonym of Nanna (god of the moon)
- Nergal (Proper name) [English] A deity worshipped throughout ancient Mesopotamia, associated with war, pestilence, and the Sun.
- Ninlil (Proper name) [English] In Sumerian mythology, the consort goddess of Enlil.
- Ninurta (Proper name) [English] A Mesopotamian god associated with agriculture and war
- Shamash (Proper name) [English] The sun god and god of justice in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian Utu.
- Siduri (Proper name) [English] An ancient Babylonian goddess of wisdom, fermentation and merrymaking.
- Sin (Proper name) [English] A desert mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, situated between Elim and Mount Sinai.
- Suen (Proper name) [English] Synonym of Nanna (god of the moon)
- lamassu (Noun) [English] An Assyrian protective deity, often depicted as having the head of a human, the body of an ox or lion, and the wings of a bird.
- πππ·π· (Proper name) [Sumerian] Alala (Primordial god)
- πππ (Proper name) [Sumerian] River, river god (a river personified or deified)
- ππ«π (Proper name) [Sumerian] Marduk (patron deity of Babylon)
- πππ (Proper name) [Sumerian] Bau (healing and fertility goddess, daughter of Anu, wife of NingΜirsuk)
- πππ·π· (Proper name) [Sumerian] Belili (primordial god)
- πππ€ (Proper name) [Sumerian] Enlil (the king of the gods of the Sumerian pantheon)
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(Proper name) [Sumerian] Ishkur (the Sumerian god of storm)
- ππ (Proper name) [Sumerian] an alad spirit (a male tutelary deity, corresponding to the Akkadian Ε‘Δdum)
- ππΉ (Proper name) [Sumerian] Inanna
- ππΊπ (Proper name) [Sumerian] Nisaba (Also Nidaba. Sumerian goddess of grain, knowledge, and scribal arts, patron deity of the city of EreΕ‘)
- πππ (Proper name) [Sumerian] Nanna, the moon god, patron of Ur (corresponding to Akkadian Sin)
- ππ (Proper name) [Sumerian] the sun god Utu (city-god of Larsa)
- ππππ’ (Proper name) [Sumerian] Ningirsu (chief male god of the LagaΕ‘ state)
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(Proper name) [Sumerian] Ninurta (Sumerian farmer and warrior god)
- άά’ά (Proper name) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] Anu: An ancient Mesopotamian god being supreme source of all authority. Corresponding to the Roman god Jupiter and the Greek god Zeus.
- ά ά‘ά£ά (Noun) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] lamassu (Assyrian protective deity often depicted as having the head of human, the body of an ox or lion, and the wings of a bird)
- ά’άά (Proper name) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] Nabu: An ancient Mesopotamian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes and wisdom. Corresponding to the Roman God Mercury and the Greek god Hermes.
- ά’άά’άάͺά¬ά (Proper name) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] Ninurta: An ancient Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing and hunting. Corresponding to the Roman god Saturn and the Greek god Cronus.
- ά’άͺάά (Proper name) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] Nergal: An ancient Mesopotamian god associated with war. Corresponding to the Roman god Mars and the Greek god Ares.
- ά₯ά«ά¬άͺ (Proper name) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] Ishtar, Astarte, Ashtoreth: An ancient Mesopotamian goddess associated with love, beauty, sex and fertility. Corresponding to the Roman goddess Venus and the Greek goddess Aphrodite.
- ά₯ά«ά¬άͺ (Proper name) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] A common given name among Assyrian people
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