English > Babylon: 1 sense > noun 1, locationMeaning | The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia. |
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Instance of | city, metropolis, urban center | A large and densely populated urban area |
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Part of | Mesopotamia | The land between the Tigris and Euphrates |
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Parts | Hanging Gardens of Babylon | A terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates |
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Tower of Babel, Babel | (Genesis 11 |
Region of | Adad | Babylonian god of storms and wind |
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Adapa | A Babylonian demigod or first man (sometimes identified with Adam) |
Anshar | The Babylonian father of the gods |
Antum | Babylonian consort of Anu |
Anu | Babylonian god of the sky |
Anunnaki, Enuki | Any of a group of powerful Babylonian earth spirits or genii |
Babylonia, Chaldaea, Chaldea | An ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia |
Babylonian | The ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written |
Bel | Babylonian god of the earth |
Damkina, Damgalnunna | (Babylonian) earth goddess |
Girru | The Babylonian god of fire |
Gula | The Babylonian goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta |
Ishtar, Mylitta | Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love / love and fertility and war |
Kishar | Babylonian consort of Anshar |
Marduk, Merodach, Baal Merodach, Bel-Merodach | The chief Babylonian god |
Nabu, Nebo | Babylonian god of wisdom / wisdom / wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools |
Nina | The Babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea |
Ningirsu | (Babylonian god in older pantheon) god of war and agriculture |
Ningishzida | An underworld Babylonian deity |
Ninurta, Ninib | A solar deity |
Sarpanitu, Zirbanit, Zarpanit | consort of Marduk |
Shamash | The chief sun god |
Tashmit, Tashmitum | consort of Nabu |
Region | Mesopotamia | The land between the Tigris and Euphrates |
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Spanish | Babilonia |
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Catalan | Babilim |
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Adjectives | Babylonian | of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or culture |
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