Pagan Religions(Mesopotamian)

[johny smith]

In ancient Mesopotamia, the facts of nature were attributed to the workings of divine forces. Thus, there were many gods and goddesses, including 4 creator gods who were themselves created by the forces of Taimat and Abzu, who had emerged from a primordial chaos of water.

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https://worldofciv.svn.sourceforge..../Rapture/Sounds/Mesopotamian/Mesopotamian.mp3

 

[johny smith]

In Sumerian mythology and later for Assyrians and Babylonians, Anu was a sky-god, the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, spirits and demons, and dwelt in the highest heavenly regions. It was believed that he had the power to judge those who had committed crimes, and that he had created the stars as soldiers to destroy the wicked. His attribute was the royal tiara, most times decorated with two pairs of bull horns.

 

[johny smith]

Assur was the head of the Assyrian pantheon. His origins are unknown but he is one of the Mesopotamian city gods, namely of the city Assur (pronounced Ashur), once the capital of the Old Assyrian kingdom. He was considered the highest god in the Assyrian pantheon and the protector of the Assyrian state. In the Mesopotamian mythology he was the equivalent of Babylonian Marduk.

 

[johny smith]

Marduk was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century BC), started to slowly rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BC.

 

[johny smith]

Here is the folder of the Mesopotamian religions.

http://wocrapture.svn.sourceforge.n.../Modules/Rapture/Mesopotamian.tar.gz?view=tar