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Family tree of the Babylonian gods

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The following is a family tree of gods and goddesses from Babylonian mythology.

Apsu[1]Tiamat
Mummu[2]LahmuLahamuKingu[3]
AnsharKishar
AnuAntu
DamkinaEa/Nudimmud[4]EllilSin
AsaruluduMarduk[5]Sarpanit[6]Ishtar[7][n 1]
Nabu[10]Tashmetum[11]


See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ Ishtar is sometimes considered the daughter of Anu instead.[8][9]

Citations

  1. ^ Leeming 2005, p. 24
  2. ^ Heidel 1951, p. 3
  3. ^ Leeming 2005, p. 229
  4. ^ Heidel 1951, p. 18
  5. ^ Heidel 1951, p. 21
  6. ^ Leick 1991, p. 149
  7. ^ Pritchard 2011, p. 77; Dalley 1998, p. 160
  8. ^ Jordan 2014, p. 143
  9. ^ Leick 1991, p. 88
  10. ^ Leick 1991, p. 123
  11. ^ Leick 1991, p. 156

Sources

  • Dalley, Stephanie. (1998) [1989]. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-283589-0.
  • Heidel, Alexander. (1951) [1942]. The Babylonian Genesis (PDF) (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-32399-4.
  • Jordan, Michael. (2014). Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses. New York: Infobase Publishing. ISBN 9781438109855.
  • Leeming, David Adams. (2005). The Oxford Companion to World Mythology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-515669-0.
  • Leick, Gwendolyn. (1991). A Dictionary of Near Eastern Mythology. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 0-203-02852-X.
  • Pritchard, James Bennett, ed. (2011). The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14726-0.

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