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Anunnaki
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Main page This article is about the Sumerian gods. For the role-playing game character, see Demon: The Fallen. For The
Contents Anunnaki as depicted in The 12th Planet, see Zecharia Sitchin.
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Random article Ananaki and other variations) are a group of deities in ancient Ancient
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Upload file The name is variously written "da-nuna", "da-nuna-ke4-ne", or "da-nun-na", Four primary
Special pages Anu
meaning "princely offspring" or "offspring of Anu".[1] According to The Enlil
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Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the Anunnaki: "...are the Enki
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Sumerian deities of the old primordial line; they are chthonic deities of Ninhursag
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Three sky gods
Cite this page fertility, associated eventually with the underworld, where they became
Inanna/Ishtar
judges. They take their name from the old sky god An (Anu)."[2] Nanna/Sin
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Create a book By her consort Anu, Ki gave birth to the Anunnaki, the most prominent of
Download as PDF these deities being Enlil, god of the air. According to legends, heaven and Other major gods
Printable version earth were once inseparable until Enlil was born; Enlil cleaved heaven and Adad
Languages earth in two. Anu carried away heaven. Ki, in company with Enlil, took the Dumuzid/Tammuz
Enkimdu
earth. Ereshkigal
Kingu
Some authorities question whether Ki was regarded as a deity since there
Geshtinanna
Catal is no evidence of a cult and the name appears only in a limited number of Lahar
etina Sumerian creation texts. Samuel Noah Kramer identifies Ki with the Marduk
Deutsch Sumerian mother goddess Ninhursag and claims that they were originally Nergal
Ninurta
the same figure.
Espaol Minor gods
Esperanto Agasaya
Mythology [ edit ]
Anunnaki
Franais Their relation to the group of gods known as the Igigi is unclear at times Asaruludu
Hrvatski Ashnan
the names are used synonymously but in the Atra-Hasis flood myth the
Italiano Bel
Igigi are the sixth generation of the gods who have to work for the Enbilulu
Latina Anunnaki, rebelling after 40 days and replaced by the creation of Geshtinanna
Lietuvi humans.[3] Lahar
Mami/Nintu
Magyar
Jeremy Black and Anthony Green offer a slightly different perspective on Mamitu
Nederlands Nabu

the Igigi and the Anunnaki, writing that "lgigu or Igigi is a term introduced
Namtar
Polski in the Old Babylonian Period as a name for the (ten) "great gods". While it Nanshe
Portugus sometimes kept that sense in later periods, from Middle Assyrian and Nidaba
Romn Babylonian times on it is generally used to refer to the gods of heaven Ningal
Ninkasi
collectively, just as the term Anunnakku (Anuna) was later used to refer to Ninlil
Slovenina
the gods of the underworld. In the Epic of Creation, it is said that there are Ninsun
/ srpski
Suomi 300 lgigu of heaven."[4] Nusku
Sarpanit
Svenska The Anunnaki appear in the Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish.[5] In Uttu
Tagalog the late version magnifying Marduk, after the creation of mankind, Marduk
Trke Demigods and heroes
divides the Anunnaki and assigns them to their proper stations, three
Adapa

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Edit links hundred in heaven, three hundred on the earth. In gratitude, the Enkidu
Anunnaki, the "Great Gods", built Esagila, the splendid: "They raised high Enmerkar
Gilgamesh
the head of Esagila equaling Apsu. Having built a stage-tower as high as Lugalbanda
Apsu, they set up in it an abode for Marduk, Enlil, Ea." Then they built Shamhat
their own shrines.[citation needed] Siduri
Atra-Hasis
The Anunnaki are mentioned in The Epic of Gilgamesh when Utnapishtim
Spirits and monsters
tells the story of the flood. The seven judges of hell are called the
Utukku
Anunnaki, and they set the land aflame as the storm is approaching.[6] Lamassu/Shedu
According to later Assyrian and Babylonian myth, the Anunnaki were the Asakku
Edimmu
children of Anu and Ki, brother and sister gods, themselves the children of Siris
Anshar and Kishar (Skypivot and Earthpivot, the Celestial poles), who in Anz
turn were the children of Lahamu and Lahmu ("the muddy ones"), names Humbaba
Asag
given to the gatekeepers of the Abzu (House of Far Waters) temple at
Hanbi
Eridu, the site at which the creation was thought to have occurred. Finally, Kur
Lahamu and Lahmu were the children of Tiamat (Goddess of the Ocean) Lamashtu
and Abzu (God of Fresh Water).[7] Pazuzu
Rabisu
Tales
References [ edit ]
Atra-Hasis
1. ^ a b Black, Jeremy and Green, Anthony: Gods, Demons and Symbols of Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary University of Texas Press Enma Eli
(Aug 1992) ISBN 978-0-292-70794-8 p.34 Epic of Gilgamesh
2. ^ Leemings, David (2009). The Oxford Companion to World Mythology. Related topics
Oxford University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0195387087. Ancient Near Eastern religions
3. ^ Leick, Gwendolyn: A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology (NY: Sumerian religion
Routledge, 1998), p. 85 Babylonian religion
4. ^ Black, Jeremy and Green, Anthony: Gods, Demons and Symbols of v t e
Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary University of Texas Press
(Aug 1992) ISBN 978-0-292-70794-8 p.106 [1]
5. ^ Enuma Elish , tablet 1, verse 156
6. ^ N. K. Sandars (translator): "The Epic of Gilgamesh", Penguin Books, London (2006) ISBN 978-0-141-02628-2 p.52
7. ^ For a comparison of all world pantheons and the monomythological connection of these god-patriarchs with other culture
pantheons, see "Kingship At Its Source" by Dr. John D. Pilkey, and a preface monograph at
www.weirdvideos.com/preface.html.

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