EARLY CIVILIZATIONS

The legend of Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh was half god and half human.He was bored and the gods saw him and they send to him a friend,first they had a bad impression but after they became very friends and they travel around the world.

Gods of ancient Mesopotamia
Tiamat:The primordial dragon goddes of creative chaos
She lived happily in the salt water below the mists of time,joined by aspu ,the wettest water god ever.







Ishtar:Sky goddes of sex ,fertility love and war.
 She's a feisty no-nonsense Goddess  and also the Evening Star with eight points. All of them good. Extremely popular.









                             
                             Enki:Highly sexed beer loving sumerian creator god.
He was the first Sumerian deity to discover sex  while he was in his bath.

 

Marduk:Top babyloniam deity, fertility god and supreme hole leader.As the boss of Babylon and custodian of the Tablets of Destiny  was definitely a force to be reckoned with. Until he was stolen by Assyrians  causing a lot of aggravation with failed harvests and war. 

Apsu: God of sweet waters and the heavenly oceans of Wisdom.In the beginning this primordial deity encircled the Earth and filled it with optimistic goodness. 

Gilgamesh:Famous Sumerian and Akkadian Hero who was two thirds God, or was it one third?  

 

Nergal:A bit of a bully in bull form, with lots of bellowing, roaring and raping.

Anu: Top Sky God, Lord of Heaven and Supreme Manager of all the other Gods

 Inanna:Fabulous Goddess of Words, Language, Syntax and Meaning

It's all writing, innit? Having peeked at the Tablets of Destiny , she is an expert at persuasive nam-shub bery
  




 



Kingu:Dragon-god consort of tiamat before it all went horribly wrong
 
 

 

 

 

 

Zigurats

Zigurats: were massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotaminavalley and western Iranian plateu, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

 Ziggurats were built by the Sumerians, Babylonians, Elamites, Akkadians and Assyrians for local religions. Each ziggurat was part of a temple complex which included other buildings.

  

The Babylonian Empire

 Babylonia: was an ancient Akkadian speaking Semetic nation state and cultural region based in central-southern Mesopotamia.