English > Semitic deity: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A deity worshipped by the ancient Semites. |
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| Category | antiquity | The historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe |
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| Instances | 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 |
| Apsu | father of the gods and consort of Tiamat |
| Aruru | mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic |
| Ashur, Ashir | Chief god of the Assyrians |
| Astarte, Ashtoreth | An ancient Phoenician goddess of love / love and fertility |
| Baal | Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples |
| Bel | Babylonian god of the earth |
| Dagan | god of agriculture and earth |
| Dagon | god of agriculture and the earth |
| Damkina, Damgalnunna | (Babylonian) earth goddess |
| Dumuzi, Tammuz | Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation |
| Ea | The Babylonian god of wisdom / wisdom / wisdom |
| Enki | water god and god of wisdom / wisdom / wisdom |
| Enlil, En-lil | god of the air and king of the Sumerian gods |
| Ereshkigal, Eresh-kigal, Ereshkigel | goddess of death and consort of Nergal |
| Girru | The Babylonian god of fire |
| Gula | The Babylonian goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta |
| Igigi | Any of a group of heavenly / heavenly spirits under the god Anu |
| Inanna | consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz) |
| Ishtar, Mylitta | Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love / love and fertility and war |
| Ki | goddess personifying earth |
| Kishar | Babylonian consort of Anshar |
| Mama | A name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped |
| Marduk, Merodach, Baal Merodach, Bel-Merodach | The chief Babylonian god |
| Moloch, Molech | god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children |
| Nabu, Nebo | Babylonian god of wisdom / wisdom / wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools |
| Nammu | goddess personifying the primeval sea |
| Namtar, Namtaru | A demon personifying death |
| Nanna | god of the Moon |
| Nergal | (Akkadian) god ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead |
| Nina | The Babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea |
| Ningal | (Akkadian) a goddess |
| Ningirsu | (Babylonian god in older pantheon) god of war and agriculture |
| Ningishzida | An underworld Babylonian deity |
| Ninkhursag, Ninhursag, Ninkharsag | The great mother goddess |
| Nintu, Nintoo | A name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped |
| Ninurta, Ninib | A solar deity |
| Nusku | god of fire and light |
| Ramman | god of storms and wind |
| Sarpanitu, Zirbanit, Zarpanit | consort of Marduk |
| Shamash | The chief sun god |
| Sin | (Akkadian) god of the Moon |
| Tashmit, Tashmitum | consort of Nabu |
| Tiamat | (Akkadian) mother of the gods and consort of Apsu |
| Utnapishtim | favorite of the gods and grandfather of Gilgamish |
| Utu, Utug | sun god |
| Zu, Zubird | Evil storm god represented as a black bird |
| Narrower | Anunnaki, Enuki | Any of a group of powerful Babylonian earth spirits or genii |
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| Lilith | In ancient Semitic folklore |
| Broader | deity, divinity, god, immortal | Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force |
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| Spanish | divinidad semítica |
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| Catalan | divinitat semítica |
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