English word senses marked with topical category "Mesopotamian deities"

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Total 18 word senses

• Adad (Proper name) The god of storms in Mesopotamian mythology.
• Aya (Proper name) In Akkadian mythology, a mother goddess, consort of the sun god Shamash.
• Enbilulugugal (Proper name) One of the three aspects of the god Enbilulu, as the power presiding over growth and abundance.
• Enki (Proper name) A god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.
• Enlil (Proper name) 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) The goddess of the underworld.
• Inanna (Proper name) 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) 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.
• Nanna (Proper name) The god of the moon in Sumerian mythology.
• Nanna-Suen (Proper name) Synonym of Nanna (god of the moon)
• Nergal (Proper name) A deity worshipped throughout ancient Mesopotamia, associated with war, pestilence, and the Sun.
• Ninlil (Proper name) In Sumerian mythology, the consort goddess of Enlil.
• Ninurta (Proper name) A Mesopotamian god associated with agriculture and war
• Shamash (Proper name) The sun god and god of justice in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian Utu.
• Siduri (Proper name) An ancient Babylonian goddess of wisdom, fermentation and merrymaking.
• Sin (Proper name) A desert mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, situated between Elim and Mount Sinai.
• Suen (Proper name) Synonym of Nanna (god of the moon)
• lamassu (Noun) 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.

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