BABYLONIAN MYTHOLOGY

Ištar or Ishtar was the Babylonian goddess of love and beauty, life and fertility. Primarily associated with sexuality. Ištar had many lovers. Ishtar (Inanna in Sumerian sources) is a primordial Mesopotamian goddess, primarily associated with love and war. The oldest written evidence we have for a deity belongs to this powerful Mesopotamian goddess. Although not widely known today, this important ancient divinity played a complex and influential role in the religions and cultures of the Ancient Near East. In the ancient world, it is practically impossible not to stress the prominence of Inanna/Ishtar. As the most emblematic goddess of Mestopotamia, her great influence was ingrained in many aspects of the lives of her devotees, being venerated throughout the wide geographical reach of the Ancient Near East, during a period of history that spans thousands of thousands of years. of years. Ishtar comes from a very early time in the history of complex civilizations, with her cult attested i...

  Apsu is depicted as a deity only in the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish, recovered from Ashurbanipal's library (c. 630 BCE), but which is about 500 years older. In this story, she was a primordial being made of fresh water and attached to another primordial deity, Tiamat, who was a saltwater creature. The Enuma Elish begins: "When the sky above had not been named, the land below had not been called by name, there was nothing but the primordial Apsu, their progenitor, (and) Mummu-Tiamat, the one who gave birth to them all.. ."

  Belet-Seri  was a Mesopotamian goddess who served as a scribe in the court of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal. She could be regarded as the Akkadian counterpart of Sumerian Geshtinanna, but the name could also function as a title of Ašratum, the wife of Amurru, or as a fully independent deity. The name Belet-Seri means "mistress of the steppe.The Akkadian word ṣēru, in addition to its literal meaning, could also refer to the underworld. Old Babylonian incantations, such as Udug-hul, attest that Belet-Seri was envisioned as a scribe of the underworld (ṭupšarrat arallê). It has been proposed that she was meant to server as a mirror of the royal scribe (ṭupšar ekalli) in the underworld court of Ereshkigal. She was most likely believed to hold a list containing the names of the dead, on the basis of which they were admitted to the underworld. Her role is described in the Epic of Gilgamesh when Enkidu has a vision of the underworld in a dream. In the incantation serie...

  KULLA :  The God of bricks and construction Babylonian god of temple restoration. So what happened to the Tower of Babel? Obviously he didn't get the contract. Human beings did not build in Mesopotamia. They couldn't possibly have built. When a work was finished, the builders, owners and priests sang hymns in which it was clearly explained that no human being had intervened in the work, although, at the request of the builder gods, and always under their orders, some human beings had could collaborate. Kulla was then begged to leave the building, and depart, in his ship, to other works where humans awaited his arrival. Already, at the beginning of the work, the gods had been conjured. The land was blessed with the blood of a sacrificed ram, and liquids such as honey and cypress resin. Then, once the trenches were opened in which the foundations of the building were to be raised, samples of precious metals (gold and silver), semi-precious stones, shells, liquids and food were...

  Lugalzagesi  (circa 2340-2316 BC) was the king of the Mesopotamian city of Umma a few kilometers from Lagash, a city of which he was a staunch rival.1 Biography In the XXIV century B.C. C., Eannatum de Lagash had defeated and subdued the city of Umma, this victory is the one that is represented in the "Stele of the vultures". When Lugalzagesi ascended the throne, he organized his army and defeated Urukagina descendant of Eannatum, ending the hegemony of Lagash and including it in his patrimony, later he took the very important city of Kish, and behind it fell Nippur, Larsa, Ur, and the other Sumerian cities until he reached Uruk, where he founded the III Uruk dynasty (of which he is the only exponent). He had accumulated so many titles on his way through the Sumerian cities, such as "ensi of Enlil (Nippur)", "Governor of Utu (Ur)", "Priest of Anu (Uruk"), etc.

Babylonian mythology is based on the belief of different myths, legends and religions; it arose in the second millennium BCE. The belief in these gods became so strong that it caused the birth of a city. During the second millennium B.C. many tribes got together and decided to lead a peaceful life without anguish, they settled in what is now known as Syria and, together with the code of Hammurabi, Babylon was established as a city. For the Chaldeans, cultural heirs of the Sumerians, the Universe was a completely closed region. The Earth was flat, it was made up of immense plains with a huge mountain in the center and it floated on a great sea, which was a space forbidden to men and was called the waters of death. Heaven had been built by Marduk, out of hard, polished metal that reflected sunlight during the day. When night came, it took on a dark blue color because it became a curtain where the gods represented the planets, the Moon and the stars.          ...

  The epic of Ammisaduqa In Marduk's absence, Erra plots to devastate Babylon, turning its cities into a desert, desecrating its sacred shrines, leaving its royal palaces in ruins, and sowing strife between families. Ishum intervenes and twice tries, to no avail, to change Erra's mind. In his third attempt he passionately describes the perverse effect of the devastation of Babylon. "He who is ignorant of weapons draws his sword, He who does not know the battle makes war, The one who does not know the wings flies like a bird, the weak protects the one who has strength, the fat man outruns the runner." Ishum reports that Marduk himself has cried "oh!", his heart breaking. Throughout Babylon, in Sippar, Uruk, and Der, the people are at war and the country devastated. It concludes: "O warrior Erra, you have put the just to death, you have put the unjust to death. You have put to death the man who had offended you, You have put to death the man who had not o...