Near East

Abzu

Apsu, sweet water, refers to the fertilizing groundwater and its potentiated mud, and in some [...]

Enlil

Enlil has all the characteristics of a weather god. Weather gods are typically unpredictable and [...]

Extispicy

The Mesopotamian tradition of extispicy of dead sacrificial sheep remained remarkably consistent throughout Old Babylonian, [...]

Inanna

She is the evening and the morning star, the protectress of the flocks, who out [...]

Mesopotamian Iron Age clay guardian dogs

Clay dogs were likely substitutes for real mastiffs, still renowned in the Middle East as [...]

Mesopotamian religion

The heavens were populated with hundreds of supremely powerful, man-like beings, and each of these [...]

Ninurta

In addition to Enlil and Inanna, Ninurta was also sacred to Nippur. His temple, the [...]

Query tablets

Query tablets are noted for being large and coarse and by their equally large and [...]

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