Category: Mesopotamian Mythology

Bau ORIGIN: Sumer (Mesopotamia) Bau, Goddess of Healing and Life, was once among the most significant deities of the Sumerian pantheon. She is intensely associated…

Fish swimming in the Euphrates discovered an unusual egg floating on the river. They nudged it to shore with their noses. Once on dry land,…

Ea (Hea, Hoa) In Near Eastern mythology (Sumero-Akkadian), god of sweet waters, earth, and wisdom; patron of the arts; one of the creators of humankind;…

Adapa (man) In Near Eastern mythology, Babylonian hero who lost the gift of immortality for humankind through a trick of the gods. The myth of…

Aa (A, Anunit, Aya) In Near Eastern mythology (Babylonian-Assyrian), consort of the sun god Shamash, sometimes called Makkatu (mistress; queen). Originally Aa may have been…

Ardat Lili ORIGIN: Sumeria Ardat Lili is a dangerous storm spirit from ancient Sumeria, a vampiric succubus who visits men at night. She inspires them…

Inanna is the Sumerian mother Goddess, queen of heaven and ruler of the cycles of the seasons and fertility. She was also called Nina; the…

Abtagigi is the Sumerian spirit of sacred sexuality. She awakens and stimulates erotic impulses. Babylonians and Assyrians used the Semitic form of he…

Nisroc Assyrian deity who became both a good Angel and a Fallen Angel. As a fallen angel in Hell, Nisroc rules cuisine in the House…

The ekimmu was in ancient Assyria, the evil Ghost of one who was denied entrance to the underworld and was doomed to wander the earth.…