What is List of Mesopotamian deities?
{{redlinks|date=October 2021}} The following is a list of '''[[Mesopotamia]]n [[:en:List_of_Mesopotamian_deities|deities]]'''. == Major Deities == *[[:en:Hadad|Hadad]] (or Adad) - storm and rain god *[[:en:Enlil|Enlil]] (or Ashur) - god of air, head of the [[Assyria]]n and Sumerian pantheon *[[Anu]] (or An) - god of [[heaven]] and the sky, lord of constellations, and father of the gods *[[:en:Dagon|Dagon]] (or Dagan) - god of fertility *[[:en:Enki|Enki]] (or Ea) - god of the [[:en:Abzu|Abzu]], crafts, water, intelligence, mischief and creation and divine ruler of the [[Earth]] and its humans *[[:en:Ereshkigal|Ereshkigal]] - goddess of [[:en:Ancient_Mesopotamian_underworld|Irkalla]], the Underworld *[[Inanna]] (later known as Ishtar) - goddess of fertility, love, and war *[[:en:Marduk|Marduk]] - patron deity of [[Babylon]] who eventually became regarded as the head of the Babylonian pantheon *[[:en:Nabu|Nabu]] - god of wisdom and writing *[[:en:Nanshe|Nanshe]] - goddess of prophecy, fertility and fish *[[:en:Nergal|Nergal]] - god of plague, war, and the sun in its destructive capacity; later husband of Ereshkigal *[[:en:Ninhursag|Ninhursag]] (or Mami, Belet-Ili, Ki, Ninmah, Nintu, or Aruru) - earth and mother goddess *[[:en:Ninlil|Ninlil]] - goddess of the air; consort of Enlil *[[:en:Ninurta|Ninurta]] - champion of the gods, the epitome of youthful vigor, and god of agriculture *[[:en:Utu|Shamash]] (or Utu) - god of the sun, arbiter of justice and patron of travelers *[[:en:Sin_(mythology)|Sin]] (or Nanna) - god of the moon *[[:en:Dumuzid|Tammuz]] (or Dumuzid) - god of food and vegetation ==Minor deities== This is only some of them. There are thousands. This is in Alphabetic order. *[[Abu (god)|Abu]] - a minor god of vegetation *[[Ama-arhus]] - Akkadian fertility goddess; later merged into Ninhursag *[[Amasagnul]] - Akkadian fertility goddess *[[Amurru (god)|Amurru]] - god of the [[Amorite]] people *[[Anu|An]] - a goddess, possibly the female principle of Anu *Arah - the goddess of fate. *[[Asaruludu]] or Na