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Religion of Mesopotamia

  • The people of Mesopotamia were Polytheistic, which

meant they believed in many gods.

  • The people worshiped in a ziggurat. Why did they build the ziggurat so high? Let's find out...
  • They believed that in order to have good things happen, they needed to please the gods.

Well, here we are back at the top of the ziggurat. I hope you learned a few of the gods and goddesses of Mesopotamia.

Remember, polytheistic means "belief in many gods."

Special Thanks to the British Museum for all the great info!

Wow! We are really high up in the air!

The people of Mesopotamia built the ziggurat so high because they believed the gods lived in the sky and they tried to get as close to the sky as possible.

  • Now, let's learn about some of the gods and goddesses...

Adad

-god of storms

-symbol: the Lightning fork

Ninhursag

-mother of the gods

Dumuzi

-god of the harvest

-god of the underworld

Ninhurta

-god of war

-often holding a bow/arrow and

sickle sword

Ereshkigal

-goddess of the underworld

Ashur

-principle Assyrian god

Ellil

-main city is Nippur

-so powerful, other gods couldn't

even look at him so he is only shown

as a horned cap.

Pazuzu

-protects humans against evil

- He has a human body with the feet and claws of an eagle, and the head of a monster.

Marduk

-city god of Babylon

-Marduk's symbols are a spade and the Mushhushshu snake-dragon.

Ea

-god of fresh water

-He is a god of wisdom, farming, building, magic and arts and crafts. Ea appears as a bearded man surrounded by flowing water.

-Ea's symbols are the goat-fish and a sceptre with a ram's head

Nabu

-god of scribes, writing, and wisdom

-The symbol of Nabu is a wedge, which stands for either a cuneiform sign or a stylus.

Anzu

-bird with a lion head.

-flaps his wings with such force

that whirlwinds and storms are created

Mushhushshu

-a snake-dragon

-protects the gods

-name means "furious snake"

Anu

-god of the sky

-he is the supreme ruler

of all the gods

-his symbol is a horned cap

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