Sumerian religion refers to the mythology, pantheon, rites and cosmology of the Sumerian civilization. The Sumerian religion influenced Mesopotamian mythology as a whole, surviving in the mythologies and religions of the Hurrians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and other culture groups.
The Sumerian Pantheon includes 3600 deities, the main ones are
AN: God Of Heaven
ENLIL: God Of Air, patron deity of Nippur
ENKI: God Of Freshwater, Male Fertility and Knowledge, patron deity of Eridu
INANNA: Goddess Of Sexual Love, Female Fertility and Warfare, matron deity of Uruk
KI: Goddess Of The Earth
NANNA: God Of The Moon, on of the patron deities of Ur
NINGAL: Wife Of Nanna
NIHLIL: An air goddess and wife of Enlil, one of the matron deities of NIPPUR, she was believed to reside in the same temple as Enlil.
NINURTA: God of war, agriculture, one of the Sumerian wind gods, patron deity of Girsu and one of the patron deities of Lagash.
UTU: God of the sun at the E'barbara temple of Sippar
Sounds Familiar
Some stories in Sumerian religion appear similar to stories in other Middle-Eastern religions. For example, the biblical account of the Noah's flood myth resembles some aspects of the Sumerian deluge myth. The Judaic underworld Sheol is very similar in description with the Sumerian and Babylonian Kigal. Sumerian scholar Samuel Noah Kramer noted similarities between many Sumerian and Akkadian "proverbs" and the later Hebrew proverbs, many of which are featured in the Book Of Proverbs.
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