Mesopotamian Gods

Category: Frameworks > Mesopotamian Polytheism

Contents of this category

• Adad (sum. Iškur; cf. Zeus)
• Anu
• Antu
• Apsû
• Aššūr
• Aya (sum. Šerida)
• Babu
• Bēlet-ilī (sum. Ninmaḫ)
• Dagān
• Damkina
• Ea (sum. Enki)
• Enmešarra
• Ereškigal
• Gerra/Girra
• Illil (sum. Enlil)
• Ištar (sum. Innin)
• Kayamannu or Kēwān (planet Saturn)
• Lātarāk
• Ma(n)dānu
• Manu(n)gal
• Marduk aka Bēl (sum. Asalluḫi; cf. Zeus)
• Nabû
• Nanāya
• Nerigal (akk. Erra/Irra)
• Nikkal (sum. Ningal)
• Ninegal
• Ningirsu
• Ninlil
• Ninurta
• Nisaba
• Nusku
• Palil
• Papsukkal aka Ninšubur
• Šala
• Šamaš (sum. Utu)
• Sîn (sum. Nanna)
• Šumugan
• Tammuz (sum. Dumuzi)
• Tiˀāmat
• Uraš
• Zababa

Entries in italics are included somewhere under the general category Gods rather than this regional category.

When there is no Sumerian equivalent noted, the same name (whether Sumerian or Akkadian in origin) is used in both languages.