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Ashur, the patron deity of the eponymous capital from the Late Bronze Age, was in constant rivalry with the patron deity of Babylon, Marduk. In Assyria, Ashur eventually superseded Marduk, even becoming the husband of Ishtar.
The major Assyro-Babylonian and Akkadian gods were:
Major Assyro-Babylonian demons and heroes were:
Events
- Creation - a six-stages creative act by God
- Fall of man - expulsion from Garden Eden
- Deluge and Noah's (Nuh's) Ark- flood-event. Unlike Christianity, the flood might be either global or local
- The Exodus - Story of Moses leaving Egypt, whereupon God reveals Tawrat to him on biblical Mount Sinai
- Qiyamah - the Day of Resurrection; a fundamental element of Islamic eschatology that incorporates much from the Jewish and Christian traditions
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Proto-Elamite (c. 3200 – c. 2700 BC)
Old Elamite period (c.2700 – c.1500 BC)
Shimashki dynasty
Sukkalmah dynasty
Middle Elamite period (c.1500 – c.1100 BC)
Anshan and Susa
Kassite invasions
Elamite Empire
Neo-Elamite I (c. 1100 – c. 770 BC)
Neo-Elamite II (c. 770 – 646 BC)
Neo-Elamite III (646–539 BC)
Elymais (187 BC- 224 AD)
List of Hittite deities
Sources:[22][8][23]- A'as – god of wisdom, derived from the Mesopotamian god Ea (Enki)
- Aduntarri - the diviner, chthonic
- Alalus – primordial entity
- Amunki - chthonic
- Anzili/Enzili – consort of a weather god; invoked to aid in childbirth
- Apaliunas – tutelary deity of the city of Wilusa
- Āpi - chthonic
- Aranzah/Aranzahas – personification of the Tigris River
- The sun goddess of Arinna - sun goddess and consort of Tarhunt
- Arinniti – sun goddess, possibly another name for the sun goddess of Arinna. In the late 14th century BCE, King Mursili II was particularly devoted to Arinniti.[24]
- Arma – minor moon god (Luwian)
- Aruna, god of the sea and son of Kamrusepa
- Aserdus – goddess of fertility and wife of Elkunirsa
- Elkunirsa – creator god and husband of Aserdus
- Ellel – god of the sky. He is invoked in state treaties as a protector of oaths.[25]
- Gul Ses – goddesses of fate, similar to the Moirai
- Halki – god of grain
- Hannahannah – mother goddess (Hurrian)
- Hanwasuit – goddess of sovereignty
- Hapantali – pastoral goddess
- Hasameli – god of metalworkers and craftsmen
- Hatepuna – daughter of the sea
- Hazzi – mountain and weather god (Hurrian)
- Huttellurra – collective of midwifery goddesses
- Inara – goddess of the wild animals of the steppe (Hattic)
- Irpitiga - lord of the earth, chthonic
- Irsirra – collective of midwifery goddesses
- Ishara – goddess of oaths and love
- Ištar – goddess similar to Šauška (Mesopotamian)
- Istanu – god of the sun and of judgement (from Hattic Eştan)
- Istustaya and Papaya – goddesses of destiny, spin the thread of life (Hattic)
- Jarri – god of plague and pestilence, "Lord of the Bow"
- Kamrusepa – goddess of healing, medicine and magic
- Kaskuh (Kaškuḫ; Kašku) – god of the moon. (Hurrian Kuşuh) The Luwian peoples called him Arma.
- Khipa/Khebe – tutelary deity
- Storm god of Kuliwišna
- Kumarbi – father of Tarhunt
- Kurunta – god of wild animals and hunting, symbolized by the stag
- Lelwani – deity of the underworld; originally male, later female
- Mezulla – daughter of the sun goddess of Arinna
- Minki - chthonic
- Miyatanzipa – One of the deities who sat under the Hawthorn tree awaiting the return of Telipinu
- Namšarā - chthonic
- Narā - chthonic
- Weather god of Nerik
- Pihassassa – god of weather and lightning (Luwian)
- Pirwa/Peruwa – deity of uncertain nature, associated with horses
- Rundas – god of the hunt and good fortune, symbolized by double eagle
- Sala – "lady of the mountain", became a goddess of fertility and agriculture
- Sandas – lion god
- The weather god of Šarišša – weather god
- Sarruma – god of the mountains, son of Teshub and Hebat, associated with the panther (Hurrian)
- Šauška – goddess of fertility, war and healing (Hurrian)
- Sun god of Heaven – solar deity
- Sun goddess of the Earth – goddess of the underworld; source of all evil, impurity, and sickness on earth
- Sutekh – weather god, possibly another name for Teshub
- Suwaliyat – brother of Teshub, god of warriors and storms
- Tarawa – collective of nursery goddesses
- Tarḫunna – weather god
- Tarhunt – god of thunder
- Taru – weather god (Hattic)
- Tašmišu – god of storms, epidemics, and war
- Telipinu – god of farming (Hattic)
- Tešimi/Tasimmet – "Lady of the Palace," wife of a weather god
- Teshub – god of the sky, weather and storms (Hurrian)
- Tilla – bull god, attendant and vehicle of the weather god Teshub (Hurrian)
- Uliliyassis – minor god who removes impotence
- Ubelluris – a mountain god who carries the western edge of the sky on his shoulders
- Wurrukatte – god of war (Hattic Wurunkatte)
- Zababa/Zamama – god of war, possibly another name for Wurrukatte
- Zaliyanu – deified personification of the mountain Zaliyanu
- Zašḫapuna – tutelary deity of the city of Kaštama
- Zintuḫi – daughter of Mezulla
- Weather god of Zippalanda
- Zukki – aids in childbirth, associated with Anzili
- Zulki - the dream interpretess, chthonic
Deities
- Huycau or Xucau (Ossetian: Хуыцау). The chief of the gods.
- Uastyrdzhi (Уастырджи; "Saint George"). The patron of males and travellers, and the guarantor of oaths. Main patron of North Ossetia–Alania.
- Uacilla (Уацилла; "Saint Elijah"). Also spelled Watsilla. God of rain, thunder and lightning. As protector of the harvest he is known as Хоры Уацилла (Hory Uacilla, "Uacilla of the wheat"). Anyone struck by lightning was considered chosen by the god and, if they survived, a sheep was sacrificed in their honour. His festival was celebrated in the summer with the sacrifice of a lamb and a bull and the drinking of specially brewed beer. On that day women baked bread in silence as a mark of reverence.[1]
- Safa (Сафа). God of the hearth chain. The most important domestic deity for Ossetians.
- Donbettyr (Ossetian: Донбеттыр). Lord of the waters. His name is a fusion of the Ossetian don (meaning water) and Saint Peter. He uses his chain to drag down those who unwarily go swimming too late to his realm at the bottom of the sea. He has many beautiful daughters, comparable to the Rusalki of Slavic mythology. Up to the 19th century, his day was celebrated on the Saturday following Easter by young girls.
- Dzerassae (Ossetian: Дзерассæ), one of Donbettyr's daughters, the mother of many Nart heroes.
- Tutyr (Тутыр). Lord of the wolves. Identified with Saint Theodore of Tyre.
- Fælværa (Фæлвæра). The name is possibly a conflation of Saints Florus and Laurus. Fælværa was the protector of sheep and his festival was celebrated before sheep-shearing in September.[1] He only has one eye. He is often the enemy of Tutyr.
- Æfsati (Æфсати). A male hunting god.[2]
- Kurdalægon (Курдалæгон). The heavenly smith. A close friend of the Narts.
- Satana (Сатана). Mother goddess, mother of the Narts.
- Saubarag (Саубараг or Сау бараджи дзуар, "black rider"), the god of darkness and thieves.[3] Identified with Satan.[citation needed]
- Huyændon Ældar (Хуыæндон Æлдар ). Lord of the fish. A great magician and a spirit who behaves like an earthly chief ("ældar"). His name means "Lord of the Strait" (according to Abaev, this is most probably the Cimmerian Bosphorus, the modern Strait of Kerch).
- Barastyr (Барастыр, also transliterated Barastaer or Barastir) Ossetian psychopomp. The ruler of the underworld who assigns arriving dead souls to either paradise or his own realm.[4]
- Aminon (Аминон). Gatekeeper of the underworld.
- Alardy (Аларды). Lord of smallpox, who had to be placated.[5]
- Assianism has a monistic theory, expressed by three concepts:[6]
- Xwytsau / Xuitsau (Хуыцау, "Heaven") — is the supreme God of the universe, the source of it and of the highest wisdom attainable by men. Creator and patron of worlds, he has neither image nor form, is incomprehensible and omnipresent;
- Iwag / Iuag (Иуаг) or Iuæg (Иуæг) — is the substance of everything, both uncreated and created worlds;
- Ud (Уд) — is the true universal self, that is attained by an individual soul when it identifies with Mon (Мон), the universal mind-spirit, i.e. God's manifestation. Ultimately, Mon and Ud are the same, and they are Xwytsau's manifestation.
- Uas / Was (Уас) — the good-spell or good-word, that is to say the well-being born of beings;
- Uastyrdzhi / Wastyrji (Уастырджи) — the good-spell as it embodies in men, who are bearers of divine wisdom, enlightened consciousnesses (as a symbol, Uastyrdzhi is the archetypal deity of the perfected man);
- Duagi / dwagi (дуаги; pl. дауджытæ → daudzhytæ / daujytæ), otherwise called ass (асс, pl. асов → asov; cf. the Germanic ese) — gods, divine forces endowed with measure and right that continuously mould the world, alternating forms. Among them, arvon daujita (арвон дауджита) are the divine forces underlying celestial bodies.
- Zedy (зэды, pl. задтæ → zadtæ) — forces who are worthy of veneration;
- Uayugi (уайуги, pl. уайгуытæ / уайгуыта → uayguytæ / uayguyta) — parasitic forces accompanying the temporality of being and distancing from enlightenment; in mankind they are passions, fears, pride and nervous diseases;
- Dalimon (Далимон) or Dælimon (Дæлимон) — the lowest mind that corresponds to brute matter.
- Tabiti (Ταβιτί) – Hestia (Tabiti is thought to be a hellenized version of a name similar to Hindu Tapati and related verb tapayati ("burns"/"is hot"), as well as Avestan tapaiti, Latin tepeo and several other Indo-European terms for heat.[3][4]) Tabiti was presented as "Queen of the gods" around 450 BCE by King Idanthyrsos, a political guardian,[5] she was considered the goddess of the home ensuring prosperity to a well-functioning household.[6]
- Scythian Ares (Greek: Ἄρης) – Ares
- Papaios (Παπαῖος) – Zeus
- Api (Ἀπί) – Gaia
- Oitosyros (Οἰτόσυρος) – Apollo
- Argimpasa (Ἀργίμπασα) – Aphrodite Urania
- Thagimasidas (Θαγιμασάδας) – Poseidon
- 'Ilu: "god" (Sky god, head of pantheon: Ac. Ilu, Ug. il, Pp. ʼl/Ēlos, Ib. El/Elohim, Ar. Allāh, OSA ʼl).
- 'Aṯiratu: (Ilu's wife: Ug. aṯrt, Ib. Ašērāh, OSA ʼṯrt)—The meaning of the name is unknown. She is also called 'Ilatu "goddess" (Ac. Ilat, Pp. 'lt, Ar. Allāt).
- 'Aṯtaru: (God of Fertility: Ug. ʻṯtr, OSA ʻṯtr, Et. ʻAstar sky god).
- 'Aṯtartu: (Goddess of Fertility: Ac. Ištar, Ug. ʻṯtrt, Pp. ʻštrt / Astarte, Ib. 'Aštoreṯ). The meaning of the name is unknown and not related to ʼAṯiratu.
- Haddu/Hadadu: (Storm god: Ac. Adad, Ug. hd, Pp. Adodos). The meaning of the name is probably "thunderer". This god is also known as Ba'lu "husband, lord" (Ac. Bel, Ug. b'l, Pp. b'l/Belos, Ib. Ba'al).
- Śamšu: "sun" (Sun goddess: Ug. špš, OSA: šmš, but Ac. Šamaš is a male god).
- Wariḫu: "moon" (Moon god: Ug. yrḫ, Ib. Yārēaḥ, OSA wrḫ).
Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia
When the five planets were identified, they were associated with the sun and moon and connected with the chief gods of the Babylonian pantheon. A bilingual list in the British Museum arranges the sevenfold planetary group in the following order:[2]- Sin (the Moon)
- Shamash (the Sun)
- Marduk (Jupiter)
- Ishtar (Venus)
- Ninurta (Saturn)
- Nabu (Mercury)
- Nergal (Mars)
Ashur, the patron deity of the eponymous capital from the Late Bronze Age, was in constant rivalry with the patron deity of Babylon, Marduk. In Assyria, Ashur eventually superseded Marduk, even becoming the husband of Ishtar.
The major Assyro-Babylonian and Akkadian gods were:
- Ashur (Aramaic: ܐܵܫܿܘܪ)/Anshar, patron of Assur
- Ishtar, (Astarte), goddess of love and war and patroness of Nineveh (Aramaic: ܥܸܫܬܵܪ)
- Nabu: god of writing and scribes
- Nergal: god of the Underworld
- Tiamat: sea goddess
- Samnuha[5]
- Kubaba[6]
- Marduk
- Enlil
- Ninlil
- Nisroch
- Hanbi: father of Pazuzu
- Anu
- Ea, Sumerian Enki: god of crafts
- Kishar
- Sin / Suen, Sumerian Nanna: moon god
- Ishara
- Shamash: sun god
- Adad/Hadad[7]
- Dagan/Dagon
- Bel
- Tammuz
- Adapa (Oannes)
- Gilgamesh
- Lugalbanda
- Lilitu
- Pazuzu
- Ninurta[8][9]
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- Astarte
- Atargatis (Syrian)
- Baalshamin (Canaanite and Palmyrene)
- Bēl (Palmyrene)
- Bes (Egypt)
- Ēl, Ilāh (NW Semitic)
- Inanna/Ishtar
- Malakbel (Palmyrene)
- Nabū, Nebo
- Nergal
- Syn (Mesopotamian)
- Yarhibol
Deities
A great number of deities in a four tier hierarchy headed by El and Asherah[1] were worshiped by the followers of the Canaanite religion; this is a detailed listing:[2]
- Adonis, god of youth, beauty and desire, son of Astarte. In Greek mythology, he is the lover of Aphrodite and Persephone. Linked to the planet Mercury.
- Aglibol, god the moon and brother of Malakbel. Part of a trinity of gods of Palmyra, Syria along with Bel and Yarhibol. Also part of another trinity with Baalshamin and Malakbel.
- Anat, virgin goddess of war and strife, sister and putative mate of Ba'al Hadad.
- Arsay, goddess of the underworld, one of the three daughters of Ba'al Hadad.
- Arsu, god of the evening star and twin brother of Azizos.
- Athirat, "walker of the sea", Mother Goddess, wife of El (also known as Elat and after the Bronze Age as Asherah)
- Astoreth or Athtart, better known by her Greek name Astarte, is the goddess of war, love, and fertility, is the sister of Anat and assists her in the Myth of Ba'al
- Ashtar-Chemosh, wife of Chemosh and goddess of the Moabites.
- Asherah, queen consort of El (Ugaritic religion), Elkunirsa (Hittite religion), Yahweh (Israelite religion), Amurru (Amorite religion), Anu (Akkadian religion) and 'Amm (Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia)[3] Symbolized by an Asherah pole, a common sight in ancient Canaan.
- Ashima, goddess of fate
- Atargatis, wife of Hadad, goddess of fertility and the chief goddess of northern Syria
- Attar, god of the morning star ("son of the morning") who tried to take the place of the dead Baal and failed. Male counterpart of Athtart.
- Azizos, god of the morning star and twin brother of Arsu.
- Baalah, properly Baʿalah, the wife or female counterpart of Baal (also Belili)[4]
- Ba'alat Gebal, goddess of Byblos, Phoenicia. She was distinguished in iconography to Astarte or similar goddesses by two, tall, upright feathers in her headdress.
- Ba'al Hadad (lit. master of thunder), god of storms, thunder, lightning and air. King of the gods. Uses the weapons Driver and Chaser in battle. Often referred to as Baalshamin.[5]
- Ba'al Hermon, titular local deity of Mount Hermon.
- Baal Hammon, god of fertility and renewer of all energies in the Phoenician colonies of the Western Mediterranean.
- Baalshamin also called Baal Shamem and Baal Shamaim, supreme sky god of Palmyra, Syria whose temple was destroyed on August 23, 2015 by ISIL terrorists. His attributes were the eagle and the lightning bolt. Part of trinity of deities along with Aglibol and Malakbel.[6]
- Baal-zephon or Baalzephon, properly Baʿal Zaphon or Ṣaphon. Alternate form of Baal Hadad as lord of Mount Zaphon.
- Bel or Bol, was the chief god of Palmyra, Syria whose temple was destroyed on August 30, 2015 by ISIL terrorists.[7]
- Chemosh, possibly one of the sons of El, a god of war and destruction and the national god of the Moabites and the Ammonites.
- Dagon (Dagan) god of crop fertility and grain, father of Ba'al Hadad
- El, also called 'Il or Elyon ("Most High"), god of creation, husband of Athirat.[8][i]
- Eshmun, god, or as Baalat Asclepius, goddess, of healing
- Gad, god of fortune
- Horon, an underworld god, co-ruler of the underworld, twin brother of Melqart, a son of Mot. Bethoron in Israel, takes its name from Horon.
- Ishara, goddess of oath and wife of Dagon
- Ishat, goddess of fire, wife of Moloch. She was slain by Anat.[9][10][11]
- Kotharat, seven goddesses of marriage and pregnancy
- Kothar-wa-Khasis, the skilled god of craftsmanship, created Yagrush and Aymur (Driver and Chaser) the weapons used by the god Ba'al Hadad
- Liluri, goddess of mountains and wife of Manuzi. Bulls were sacrificed to both of them.
- Lotan, the twisting, seven-headed serpent ally of Yam.
- Malakbel, god of the sun, vegetation, welfare, angel of Bel and brother of Agilbol. Part of a trinity of deities in Palmyra, Syria along with Aglibol and Baalshamin.
- Manuzi, god of weather and husband of Liluri. Bulls were sacrificed to both of them.
- Marqod, god of dance
- Melqart, "king of the city", god of Tyre, the underworld and cycle of vegetation in Tyre, co-ruler of the underworld, twin brother of Horon and son of Mot.
- Misor, twin brother of Sydyk.
- Moloch, putative god of fire, husband of Ishat[12]
- Mot or Mawat, god of death (not worshiped or given offerings)
- Nikkal-wa-Ib, goddess of orchards and fruit
- Pidray, goddess of light and lightning, one of the three daughters of Ba'al Hadad.
- Qadeshtu, lit. "Holy One", putative goddess of love, desire and lust. Also a title of Asherah.
- Resheph, god of plague and of healing
- Shadrafa, god of medicine or healing
- Shachar and Shalim, twin mountain gods of dawn and dusk, respectively. Shalim was linked to the netherworld via the evening star and associated with peace[13]
- Shamayim, (lit. "Skies"), god of the heavens, paired with Eretz, the land or earth
- Shapash, also transliterated Shapshu, goddess of the sun; sometimes equated with the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash,[14] whose gender is disputed. Some authorities consider Shamash a goddess.[15]
- Sydyk, the god of righteousness or justice, sometimes twinned with Misor, and linked to the planet Jupiter[16][17]
- Tallay, the goddess of winter, snow, cold and dew, one of the three daughters of Ba'al Hadad.
- Yam (lit. sea-river) the god of the sea and the river,[18] also called Judge Nahar (judge of the river)[19][20][21]
- Yarhibol, solar god and "lord of the spring". Part of a trinity of co-supreme gods of Palmyra, Syria along with Aglibol and Bel.
- Yarikh, god of the moon and husband of Nikkal, separated husband of Shapash the sun goddess.
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