readx;? BC 3800 - In 2000, after the Great Flood, there was a noticeable change in the image of religious deities, the gods were believed to have human images, and more importantly, in Sumerian religious mythology, the world of gods began to organize into a celestial structure similar to the Council of Elders (the supreme ruling body of the early state), and each god achieved certain official positions and functions in this heavenly government. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info actually represents the situation of various states after 3800 BC.

The worship of natural forces in the valley evolved into the patron deity of various city-states during the Sumerian period.

Sumerian genealogy

Annunaki: A general term for the gods of the underworld

Ijigi: A general term for the gods

1. Powerful God/Supreme God

Namu: The goddess of chaos, the primordial sea, from whom she gave birth to the "Mountain of Heaven and Earth" and the god of water, Anqi.

Anki: The god of water, the god of heaven and earth, the god of creation, later divided into anki and ki.

An: The god of the heavens, the Lord of the Heavenly Realm, and the father of the gods. The function of the weather is to arrange the positions of the celestial stars to show the course of the year and the changes of the seasons.

However, he did not have the approval of the "Mandate of Heaven" and had no actual binding force on the gods, but was only a formal god-king. Of course, the gods still give enough respect to this "god of the sky" under normal circumstances, and An is also happy to live in peace in the "heavenly realm", and does not ask too much of his followers, except for a few times to bless mankind, only when it is extremely dangerous to go out of the mountain. As a result, many Sumerians regarded him as a dispensable god. (Like the Jade Emperor of China)

The shrine is in Shulupak and is the local patron deity of Shulupak City. He used to guide the construction of the ark when the flood came.

Ki: The shrine is in Atab, the goddess of the earth, the sister and consort of An, also known as Nyingtu, Nyingma, and Nyinghur Saga. She was associated with many male gods, early as Ann's sister and wife, later possessed by her own son Bil Enlile, who gave birth to the "god of war" Nin Nur Ta, and later became the wife of another son, Enki. At the same time, she is also regarded as the "God of Medicine" and the "Queen of the Mountain". God's world is not something we understand!

Bil - Enlille: the god of spirit, space, the god between heaven and earth (the human world). After uniting with his mother, he became the "God of the Earth and the Storm".

Because he has the "Mandate of Heaven" tabret, the gods of the Three Realms and humans are very afraid of him (in the Sumerian mythological system, Enlil's storm is an invincible force; as long as he wears Tabrett, any attack on him is ineffective and completely invincible), and he added the word "Bele" (Bele means "Lord") before his name, as the de facto "King of the Gods" and "Lord of the Earth", even his priesthood has a very prominent status. Because he is very strict with humans, he is always at odds with the other main god, Enki, and often causes human disasters for some trivial reasons, and seems moody. It is said that the Great Flood was started by Enlil.

The Temple of Enlil is in Nipur and is the local patron deity of the city of Nipur.

Enki: The Lord of the Abyss, the god of water, wisdom and skill, along with Ann and Enlile, are listed as the three main gods. Compared with Enlile, Enki is more generous to human beings, and as long as human beings do not break the boundary of "God is immortal, and human beings are destined to die", he will try his best to help human beings. Whenever Enlil decided to punish humanity, he would always fight with him and strive to win the support and sympathy of the gods in order to achieve victory over him. On one occasion, because of Enki's opposition, Enlil was also forced to stop the "Great Flood" and grant immortality to Prince Shulupak, who had escaped the Great Flood. However, it is said that because the prince paid a large amount of tribute, God forgave him for fleeing the flood without permission. Faint! Don't let you escape! Bribery works on God, too. However, if Enlile is ruthless, the wise Enki will also consider retreating first.

The Temple of Enki is located at the mouth of the two rivers into the sea, and is the local protector of the city of Eredu.

Nanna Soon: "God", the god of the moon and the moon, the eldest son of Enlil, the father of Utu, the god of the sun, Ereshkigal, the lord of the underworld, and Eanna, the "great goddess", has very mysterious powers.

Because the Sumerians needed to determine the time and season by the waxing and waning of the moon, and the position of the stars by the position of the moon in order to divinate good fortune and bad fortune, they developed the worship of the moon god Nanna. However, he is very low-key, does not like to show the dew, and his life is like the moon covered by layers of clouds and mist.

Because of his large number of followers, Enlil felt threatened and brutally destroyed his city-state of your, causing the "Nanna believers" to suffer a serious crisis of faith. Later, the "Nanna faith" was restored, but this power could no longer make Enlil feel the slightest threat, although some "Nanna believers" still believed that the mysterious power of the moon god was above all else, but the power of Enlile forced them to keep a low profile.

The temple of Nanna is in your and is the local patron deity of the city of your.

Utu: Transformed into Shamash, the god of the sun, during the Babylonian period, was the brother of Aena and the son of Nanna, the god of the moon, the god of justice and the protector of heroes. Although he was very heroic, the Sumerians worshipped the moon god before the worship of the sun god, and they did not regard the sun god as the supreme god, nor did they regard the sun god as the god of agricultural protection, so there are few myths and legends of the sun god).

The shrine of Utu (Shamash) in the city of Sipal is the patron deity of the place of Sipal.

Nabu, the god who protects plants from growing and thriving.

The temple of Naip, in the city of Parshpa, is the patron deity of the place of Parshpa.

Eanna, also known as Nyinganna, or Ishtar (meaning Venus), the Queen of the Heavens, was the daughter of the moon god Nanna-Sun, the wife of the plant god Tumus, known to the Sumerians as the "Great Goddess", the ruler of the cosmic code (ME), who rules war, nature, fertility, fertility and love, and is also the god of Venus, representing the stars. The idol of Ishtar has a lion at his feet and grain in his hands. Its influence was the longest, reaching the Roman period. Aena was called Anat in Canaan (Phoenicia) and Cambere in Rome.