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Ancestors of Enlil, the Glossary

Ancestors of Enlil or Enki-Ninki deities were a group of Mesopotamian deities.^[1]

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Abu Salabikh

The archaeological site of Abu Salabikh (Tell Abū Ṣalābīkh), around northwest of the site of ancient Nippur and about 150 kilometers southeast of the modern city of Baghdad in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq marks the site of a small Sumerian city that existed from the Neolithic through the late 3rd millennium, with cultural connections to the cities of Kish, Mari and Ebla.

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Abzu

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

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Adab (city)

Adab or Udab (Sumerian: Adabki, spelled UD.NUNKI) was an ancient Sumerian city between Girsu and Nippur.

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Akitu

Akitu or Akitum (𒋾 |translit.

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Akkadian Empire

The Akkadian Empire was the first known ancient empire of Mesopotamia, succeeding the long-lived civilization of Sumer.

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Alalu

Alalu or Alala was a primordial figure in Mesopotamian and Hurrian mythology.

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An = Anum

An.

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Ancient Mesopotamian underworld

The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erṣetu), was the lowermost part of the ancient near eastern cosmos, roughly parallel to the region known as Tartarus from early Greek cosmology. Ancestors of Enlil and ancient Mesopotamian underworld are Mesopotamian underworld.

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Andrew R. George

Andrew R. George (born 1955) is a British Assyriologist and academic best known for his edition and translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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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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Assyria

Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.

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Šumugan

Šumugan, Šamagan, Šumuqan or Šakkan (𒀭𒄊) was a god worshipped in Mesopotamia and ancient Syria.

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Šurpu

The ancient Mesopotamian incantation series Šurpu begins enūma nēpešē ša šur-pu tušu, “when you perform the rituals for (the series) ‘Burning,’” and was probably compiled in the middle Babylonian period, ca.

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Bau (goddess)

Bau, also read Baba or Babu (cuneiform: 𒀭𒁀𒌑 dBa-U2), was a Mesopotamian goddess.

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Belili

Belili was a Mesopotamian goddess.

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Dagon

Dagon (דָּגוֹן, Dāgōn) or Dagan (𒀭𒁕𒃶; Dāgān) was a god worshipped in ancient Syria across the middle of the Euphrates, with primary temples located in Tuttul and Terqa, though many attestations of his cult come from cities such as Mari and Emar as well.

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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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Du-Ku

Du-Ku or dul-kug is a Sumerian word for a sacred place.

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Eannatum

Eannatum (𒂍𒀭𒈾𒁺) was a Sumerian Ensi (ruler or king) of Lagash circa 2500–2400 BCE.

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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 and was preceded by the Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods.

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Ebiḫ

Ebiḫ (Ebih) was a Mesopotamian god presumed to represent the Hamrin Mountains.

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Ebla

Ebla (Sumerian: eb₂-la, إبلا., modern: تل مرديخ, Tell Mardikh) was one of the earliest kingdoms in Syria.

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Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) is an online digital library of texts and translations of Sumerian literature that was created by a now-completed project based at the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford.

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Emar

Emar, is an archaeological site at Tell Meskene in the Aleppo Governorate of northern Syria.

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EN (cuneiform)

En (Borger 2003 nr. 164; U+12097 𒂗, see also Ensí) is the Sumerian cuneiform for 'lord/lady' or 'priest'.

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Enheduanna

Enheduanna (𒂗𒃶𒌌𒀭𒈾, also transliterated as,, or variants) was the (high) priestess of the moon god Nanna (Sīn) in the Sumerian city-state of Ur in the reign of her father, Sargon of Akkad (BCE).

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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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Enmesharra

Enmesharra (𒀭𒂗𒈨𒊹𒊏, "Lord of all mes") was a Mesopotamian god associated with the underworld. Ancestors of Enlil and Enmesharra are Mesopotamian underworld.

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Epithets of Inanna

Epithets of Inanna were titles and bynames used to refer to this Mesopotamian goddess and to her Akkadian counterpart Ishtar.

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Ereshkigal

In Mesopotamian mythology, Ereshkigal (𒀭𒊩𒌆𒆠𒃲, lit. "Queen of the Great Earth") was the goddess of Kur, the land of the dead or underworld in Sumerian mythology. Ancestors of Enlil and Ereshkigal are Mesopotamian underworld.

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Exorcist

In some religions, an exorcist (from the Greek „ἐξορκιστής“) is a person who is believed to be able to cast out the devil or performs the ridding of demons or other supernatural beings who are alleged to have possessed a person, or (sometimes) a building or even an object.

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Fat-tailed sheep

The fat-tailed sheep is a general type of domestic sheep known for their distinctive large tails and hindquarters.

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Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh (𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦|translit.

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Hadabal

Hadabal (also spelled 'Adabal) was a god worshiped in Ebla and its surroundings in the third millennium BCE.

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Hurrian primeval deities

Hurrian primeval deities were regarded as an early generation of gods in Hurrian mythology. Ancestors of Enlil and Hurrian primeval deities are underworld deities.

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Hurrian religion

The Hurrian religion was the polytheistic religion of the Hurrians, a Bronze Age people of the Near East who chiefly inhabited the north of the Fertile Crescent.

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Ibrium

Ibrium (2322–2302 BC), also spelt Ebrium, was the vizier of Ebla for king Irkab-Damu and his successor Isar-Damu.

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Ilib

Ilib (also known as eni attanni) was an Ugaritic god most likely regarded as a primordial deity.

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Inanna

Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility.

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Ishme-Dagan

Ishme-Dagan (𒀭𒅖𒈨𒀭𒁕𒃶, Diš-me-Dda-gan, Išme-Dagān; fl. c. 1889 BC — c. 1871 BC by the short chronology of the ancient near east) was the 4th king of the First Dynasty of Isin, according to the "Sumerian King List" (SKL).

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Karel van der Toorn

Karel van der Toorn (born 8 March 1956 in The Hague) is a Dutch scholar of ancient religions.

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Kingu

Qingu, also spelled Kingu (𒀭𒆥𒄖, d kin-gu), was a god in Babylonian mythology, and the son of the gods Abzu and Tiamat.

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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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List of Hurrian deities

The Hurrian pantheon consisted of gods of varied backgrounds, some of them natively Hurrian, while others adopted from other pantheons, for example Eblaite and Mesopotamian.

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List of Mesopotamian deities

Deities in ancient Mesopotamia were almost exclusively anthropomorphic. Ancestors of Enlil and List of Mesopotamian deities are Mesopotamian deities.

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List of Ugaritic deities

The Ugaritic pantheon included deities of local origin, many of whom are also known from Eblaite sources from the third millennium BCE or Amorite ones from the early second millennium BCE, as well as Hurrian and Mesopotamian ones.

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Lugal-zage-si

Lugal-Zage-Si (LUGAL.ZAG.GE.SI; frequently spelled Lugalzaggesi, sometimes Lugalzagesi or "Lugal-Zaggisi") of Umma (reigned 2358 – 2334 BCE middle chronology) was the last Sumerian king before the conquest of Sumer by Sargon of Akkad and the rise of the Akkadian Empire, and was considered as the only king of the third dynasty of Uruk, according to the Sumerian King List.

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Lugaldukuga

Lugaldukuga (Sumerian: "lord of the holy mound") was a Mesopotamian god primarily understood as a theogonic figure.

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Mari, Syria

Mari (Cuneiform:, ma-riki, modern Tell Hariri; تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria.

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Me (mythology)

In Sumerian mythology, a me (Sumerian: me; paršu) is one of the decrees of the divine that is foundational to Sumerian religious and social institutions, technologies, behaviors, mores, and human conditions that made Mesopotamian civilization possible.

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Middle Assyrian Empire

The Middle Assyrian Empire was the third stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of Assyria from the accession of Ashur-uballit I 1363 BC and the rise of Assyria as a territorial kingdom to the death of Ashur-dan II in 912 BC.

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Nergal

Nergal (Sumerian: dKIŠ.UNU or dGÌR.UNU.GAL;; Aramaic: ܢܸܪܓܲܠ; Nirgal) was a Mesopotamian god worshiped through all periods of Mesopotamian history, from Early Dynastic to Neo-Babylonian times, with a few attestations indicating that his cult survived into the period of Achaemenid domination. Ancestors of Enlil and Nergal are Mesopotamian underworld.

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NIN (cuneiform)

The Sumerian word NIN (𒎏), later borrowed into Akkadian, was used to denote a queen or a priestess, and is often translated as "lady".

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Ninhursag

Ninḫursaĝ (𒀭𒎏𒄯𒊕 Ninḫarsang), sometimes transcribed Ninursag, Ninḫarsag, or Ninḫursaĝa, also known as Damgalnuna or Ninmah, was the ancient Sumerian mother goddess of the mountains, and one of the seven great deities of Sumer.

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Ninkurra

Ninkurra or Ninkur was a name of multiple Mesopotamian deities, including a divine artisan, presumably a female sculptor.

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Ninlil

Ninlil (DNIN.LÍL; meaning uncertain) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of Enlil.

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Nippur

Nippur (Sumerian: Nibru, often logographically recorded as, EN.LÍLKI, "Enlil City;"I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, The Cambridge Ancient History: Prolegomena & Prehistory: Vol. 1, Part 1, Cambridge University Press, 1970 Akkadian: Nibbur) was an ancient Sumerian city.

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Nuska

Nuska or Nusku, possibly also known as Našuḫ, was a Mesopotamian god best attested as the sukkal (divine vizier) of Enlil.

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Old Babylonian Empire

The Old Babylonian Empire, or First Babylonian Empire, is dated to, and comes after the end of Sumerian power with the destruction of the Third Dynasty of Ur, and the subsequent Isin-Larsa period.

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Shalash

Shalash (Šalaš) was a Syrian goddess best known as the wife of Dagan, the head of the pantheon of the middle Euphrates area.

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Shamash

Shamash (Akkadian: šamaš), also known as Utu (Sumerian: dutu "Sun") was the ancient Mesopotamian sun god.

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Shuruppak

Shuruppak (𒋢𒆳𒊒𒆠, SU.KUR.RUki, "the healing place"), modern Tell Fara, was an ancient Sumerian city situated about 55 kilometres (35 mi) south of Nippur and 30 kilometers north of ancient Uruk on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate.

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Sin (mythology)

Sin or Suen (𒀭𒂗𒍪, dEN.ZU) also known as Nanna (𒀭𒋀𒆠 DŠEŠ.KI, DNANNA) is the Mesopotamian god representing the moon.

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Stele of the Vultures

The Stele of the Vultures is a monument from the Early Dynastic IIIb period (2600–2350 BC) in Mesopotamia celebrating a victory of the city-state of Lagash over its neighbour Umma.

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Sultantepe

The ancient temple-complex, perhaps of Huzirina, now represented by the tell of Sultantepe, is a Late Assyrian archeological site at the edge of the Neo-Assyrian empire, now in Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey.

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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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Tamarix

The genus Tamarix (tamarisk, salt cedar, taray) is composed of about 50–60 species of flowering plants in the family Tamaricaceae, native to drier areas of Eurasia and Africa.

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The Four Winds (Mesopotamian)

The Four Winds are a group of mythical figures in Mesopotamian mythology whose names and functions correspond to four cardinal directions of wind.

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Theogony

The Theogony (i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods") is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed.

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Theophoric name

A theophoric name (from Greek: θεόφορος, theophoros, literally "bearing or carrying a god") embeds the word equivalent of 'god' or God's name in a person's name, reflecting something about the character of the person so named in relation to that deity.

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Third Dynasty of Ur

The Third Dynasty of Ur, also called the Neo-Sumerian Empire, refers to 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.

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Thorkild Jacobsen

Thorkild Peter Rudolph Jacobsen (7 June 1904 – 2 May 1993) was a Danish historian specializing in Assyriology and Sumerian literature.

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Udug

The udug, later known in Akkadian as the utukku, were an ambiguous class of demons from ancient Mesopotamian mythology.

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Umma

Umma (𒄑𒆵𒆠; in modern Dhi Qar Province in Iraq, was an ancient city in Sumer. There is some scholarly debate about the Sumerian and Akkadian names for this site. Traditionally, Umma was identified with Tell Jokha. More recently it has been suggested that it was located at Umm al-Aqarib, less than to its northwest or was even the name of both cities.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestors_of_Enlil

Also known as Enki and Ninki, Enki-Ninki deities, Ninki.

, Mari, Syria, Me (mythology), Middle Assyrian Empire, Nergal, NIN (cuneiform), Ninhursag, Ninkurra, Ninlil, Nippur, Nuska, Old Babylonian Empire, Shalash, Shamash, Shuruppak, Sin (mythology), Stele of the Vultures, Sultantepe, Sumerian language, Tamarix, The Four Winds (Mesopotamian), Theogony, Theophoric name, Third Dynasty of Ur, Thorkild Jacobsen, Udug, Umma, Vizier (Ebla), Walther Sallaberger, Wilfred G. Lambert, Zame Hymns.

Ancestors of Enlil, the Glossary

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Mesopotamian deities

Mesopotamian underworld

Underworld deities

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