Elder Ones

NANNA

Nanna is the sumerian moon god,master of time and a fertility god. His parents are Enlil and Ninlil. His consort is Ningal.They had two children,the goddess Ishtar and the sun god Shammash. His animals are the Bull and the Lion-Dragon. His religious symbol is the crescent moon.He is The patron god of Ur and Harrar with his temple named E-Kishnugal. Festivals are held in his honor at every lunar change.

SHAMMASH

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Shammash is the Sumerian Sun God. His parents are Nanna and Ningal. His siblings are Ishtar and Adad. His consort is Sherida. He is the patron god of Sippar and Larsa with his temple named E-Babbar. His religious symbols are the sun-disk and the pruning saw. He has two remarkable gifts,clarity and insight.

NEBO

Nabu was a latter day Sumerian god, the son of Marduk and Sarpanitu and the grandson of Enki. He was the patron god of scribes. His wife was a little known goddess named Tashmetu. Nabu's temples were accounting and record-keeping centers, located in capitals of Sumerian city-states. In the Akkadian capital of Babil, his temples were: the E.niggidarkalammasumma, 'House Which Bestows the Sceptre of the Land,' and the Esh.barmesisa, 'The House in Which Decisions and the Mes are Kept in Order." In the Assyrian capital of Asshur, his temples were: E.gidrukalamma.summu, 'House Which Bestows the Sceptre of the Land,' and the E.gishlaanki, 'House of the Auditor of Heaven and the Netherworld.' He later established a number of temples in Akkad, all named the E.zida, 'The True House,' first in Borsippa and then in Kalah, Nineveh and within Marduk's E.sagil Temple in Babil.

MARDUK

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Marduk was the principal god of the city of Babylon, the rise of his cult to importance being intimately related to the rise of Babylon from a small city-state to the capital of a regional empire. Marduk's central cult place was the temple known as Esagil in Babylon, where Marduk was worshipped alongside his consort Sarpanitu Marduk's origins are clouded in obscurity. His worship is attested, however, as early as the Early Dynastic Period and his position as Babylonian chief deity in evidence from at least the Third Dynasty of Ur. Marduk seems early on to have absorbed the identity of a deity local to the Eridu region, Asarluhi, a son of the god Enki; as a result, Marduk became regarded as the son of Enki / Ea. A much later mythological development surrounding Marduk was the gradual recognition of Nabu, god of wisdom and deity of nearby Borsippa, as the son of Marduk. The conventional writing of the name of Marduk with the cuneiform signs literally meaning "bull-calf of the sun" probably reflects a popular etymology. With the god's rise to supreme importance, he was often simply referred to as "Bel" (meaning 'Lord'). The increasing emphasis on the cult of Marduk as state-god under the Babylonians has been compared favourably with monotheism, though the god's worship apparently never led to the denial of other deities' existence, nor the rejection of female deities. The symbol of Marduk is a triangular-shaped spade or hoe, known as the marru, and may reflect Marduk's origin as a local Babylonian agricultural deity. The animal of Marduk (shared with Nabu), the snake-dragon or mušhuššu, was apparently usurped from the local deity of Ešnunna, Tišpak, sometime soon after that city's conquest by the armies of Hammurabi of Babylon. The snake-dragon was a true composite beast, consisting of a scaly body, a serpent's head, the horns of a viper, feline / leonine front feet, the hind feet of a taloned bird and a scorpion's tail.

Inanna

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Inanna is a goddess of love, fertility, and war. She is also called Ninnanna, Ninsianna, and Inannu. She is the personification of the planet Venus and is portrayed as fickle towards men.

Enki

Enki was the Sumerian water god, son of An and Nammu. He lives in the Apsu, the watery depths below the earth. Enki supplied clear drinking water to the town of Dilmun at the request of Ninhursag. The Sumerian god Enki relates to the Babylonian god Ea.

Enlil

In ancient Sumero-Babylonian myth, Enlil ("lord wind") is the god of air, wind and storms. Enlil is the foremost god of the Mesopotamian pantheon, and is sometimes referred to as Kur-Gal ("great mountain"). In the Sumerian cosmology he was born of the union of An heaven and Ki earth. These he separated, and he carried off the earth as his portion. In later times he supplanted Anu as chief god. His consort is Ninlil with whom he has five children: Nanna, Nerigal, Ningirsu, Ninurta, and Nisaba. Enlil holds possession of the Tablets of Destiny which gives him power over the entire cosmos and the affairs of man. He is sometimes friendly towards mankind, but can also be a stern and even cruel god who punishes man and sends forth disasters, such as the great Flood which wiped out humanity with the exception of Atrahasis. Enlil is portrayed wearing a crown with horns, symbol of his power. His most prestigious temple was in the city Nippur, and he was the patron of that city. His equivalent is the Akkadian god Ellil.

Anu