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	The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ
		Sumerian and Babylonian names appear in the same Babylonian document, sometimes referring to the same entity.
		- Sumerian for "the earth", she is a colorless being who was the first consort of Anu.
		Like the Sumerian Ziusudra (the Xisuthros of Berossus) or Noah from the Pentateuch, were the long-lived survivors of the great flood which wiped out the rest of humanity.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/assyrbabyl-faq.html (7630 words)

	Sumerian Gods and Goddesses - Crystalinks
		Sumerian priests wrote of a dispute between the god of cattle, Lahar, and his sister Ashnan, the goddess of grain.
		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.
		In Sumerian mythology, Ninhursag (or Ki) was the earth and mother-goddess she usually appears as the sister of Enlil.
	www.crystalinks.com /sumergods.html (4288 words)

	I. Perspective
		Sumerian culture is believed to have existed at least since the end of the fifth millennium, pushing the social consciousness of mythological events depicted therein to a conservative 4000 BCE.
		Of course, the Sumerian civilization, itself, ceased to exist sometime around the turn of the second century BCE, at which time significant alterations were made to an already extant Sumerian mythology.
		Most of the recovered Sumerian texts were recorded during or after the reign of Sargon, an Akkadian king who conquered all of Akkad and Sumer, thus bringing Sumer under Akkadian control for the duration of his dynasty.
	home.nycap.rr.com /foxmob/sumer_pantheon01.htm (1216 words)

	Myths and Legends - frames
		Sumerian Mythology FAQ This page contains a description of the pantheon and cosmology of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq over 4000 years ago.
		Aspects of Sumerian culture are touched upon as are parallels with Biblical stories.
		A number of translations of Sumerian myths (along with a couple of Babylonian ones) and hyms can be found here as well.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/myth.html (11969 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Sumerian Mythology
		In Sumerian mythology, Namtar is the Fate-Cutter, Ereshkigal's messenger and vizier, the herald of death.
		In Sumerian mythology, Nana was a virgin mother goddess of the Spirit of vegetation and fertility.
		In Sumerian mythology, Ninurta is chamberlain of the Anunnaki.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/D8.HTM (1297 words)

	alt.mythology Sumerian Mythology FAQ, ver. 2.0
		Sumerian cuneiform, the earliest written language, was borrowed by the Babylonians, who also took many of their religious beliefs.
		In addition, there is evidence of the Sumerians in the area both prior to the Uruk period and after the Ur III Dynastic period, but relatively little is known about the former age and the latter time period is most heavily dominated by the Babylonians.
		She may be the earliest of deities within Sumerian cosmology as she gave birth to heaven and earth.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/mythology/sumer-faq (10828 words)

	Sumerian Mythology: Introduction
		The discovery of the Sumerians and their language came quite unexpectedly and was quite unlooked for; and this more or less irrelevant detail was at least partially responsible for the troubled progress of Sumerology from the earliest days to the present moment.
		Sumerian literary composition consists usually of the first part of the first line of the composition, there is no way of knowing the titles of those whose texts we have in large part but whose first lines are broken away.
		For Accadian and Sumerian are as divergent in vocabulary and structure as two languages can be, and the seeming correspondences in the ancient dictionaries and interlinears frequently proved very misleading, especially since not a few of the earlier decipherers, for one reason or another, tended to draw hasty and superficial conclusions.
	www.sacred-texts.com /ane/sum/sum05.htm (7302 words)

	Sumerian Myths
		The Sumerians developed one of the earliest civilizations on earth (3500-1750 B.C.), but the existence of such a people and civilization was not even suspected until the middle of the 19th century.
		Sumerian cities were close agglomerations of one or two story mud brick dwellings.
		The Sumerians developed a form of writing called cuneiform around 3000 BC This script began as pictographic writing but eventually developed into a "purely phonetic system of writing in which each sign stood for one or more syllables" (Wolkstein and Kramer 125).
	faculty.gvsu.edu /websterm/SumerianMyth.htm (4314 words)

	Sumerian Mythology Ch. 1
		It was the Sumerians who developed and probably invented the cuneiform system of writing; who developed a well integrated pantheon together with spiritual and religious concepts which influenced profoundly all the peoples of the Near East; who, finally, created and developed a literature rich in content and effective in form.
		Nevertheless Sumerian continued to be used as the literary and religious language of the Semitic conquerors for many centuries to come, like Greek in the Roman period and like Latin in the Middle Ages.
		A knowledge of the Sumerian myths and legends is therefore a prime and basic essential for a proper approach to a scientific study of the mythologies current in the ancient Near East, for it illuminates and clarifies to no small extent the background behind their origin and development.
	www.earth-history.com /Sumer/Kramer/kramer-ch1.htm (1016 words)

	Sumerian Mythology FAQ
		I have constructed a rudimentary Sumerian-English, English Sumerian glossary using Kramer's The Sumerians and Jacobsen's Treasures of Darkness, although parties interested in the Sumerian language may be better served at the prior two pages.
		It is notable that the Sumerians themselves may not have grouped these four as a set and that the grouping has been made because of the observations of Sumerologists.
		Another possible Sumerian carry-over related to the Fall of man is the lack of "pangs of childbearing" for those in Dilmun.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~cbsiren/sumer-faq.html (10387 words)

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		In Sumerian mythology, Adad is a storm god, son of Anu.
		According to Sumerian mythology, humans were fashioned for one purpose: to serve the gods with food, drink, and shelter so they could have leisure to go about their divine activities.
		Nanna is a god in Sumerian mythology, god of the moon, son of Enlil and Ninlil.
	www.lycos.com /info/sumerian-mythology--gods.html (430 words)

	Like its counterparts in Greek and Roman mythology, the Sumerian Pantheon was organized hierarchically in what is ...
		Like its counterparts in Greek and Roman mythology, the Sumerian Pantheon was organized hierarchically in what is commonly referred to as a pyramid structure.
		But this difference can be viewed as much as a result from modern perspective as from any significant perceptual difference in their respective time periods.
		Sumerian culture is believed to have been in existence at least since the end of the fifth millennium, pushing the social consciousness of mythological events to a conservative 4000 BCE.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/lr618/2dan.htm (468 words)

	Spero Forum - Baptist, Protestant, and Catholic Discussion
		Aa, with the name of Burida in Sumerian, was more especially the consort of Sa-zu, “him who knows the heart”, one of the names of Marduk, who was probably the morning sun, the night time sun or the winter rainy sun.
		A Sumerian expressions for “fleece” was “sheep of the sky”.
		I have talked with an mithology teacher today and he was telling me how religions is a system putting people in a box, and we looking at God in a little form of God which is limiting God.
	www.speroforum.com /forum/post.asp?method=ReplyQuote&REPLY_ID=22558&TOPIC_ID=1563&FORUM_ID=8 (8372 words)

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		In Sumerian mythology, Uttu was the daughter of Enki and Ninkurra.
		In Sumerian mythology, a vegetation god representing the decay and growth of natural life; he died at midsummer and was rescued from the underworld the following spring by his lover Ishtar.
		In Sumerian mythology, Nammu is probably the first of the ancient deities of Sumer at least in the process of creation, if not in actual chronology.
	www.lycos.com /info/sumerian-mythology.html (211 words)

	Sumerian Questions and Answers
		When the Sumerians invented their writing system around 5400 years ago, it was a pictographic and ideographic system like the Chinese, and as you know, the Chinese have over a thousand characters to their writing, so it is not alphabetic.
		The Sumerian true type font is needed for specialized transliteration symbols, such as the g with the tilde over it and the h with the dish under it.
		The fact that the Sumerians shared their land with Semitic-speaking Akkadians was important because the Akkadians had to turn the Sumerian logographic writing into phonetic syllabic writing in order to use cuneiform to represent phonetically the spoken words of the Akkadian language.
	www.sumerian.org /sumerfaq.htm (14822 words)

	Sumerian Mythology
		The most complete version of the epic was preserved on eleven clay tablets in the collection of the 7th century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
		Each of the four major Sumerian deities is associated with one of these regions.
		In about 3000 BC the Sumerians in the Middle East also had this account of Creation.
	www.crystalinks.com /sumermythology.html (2990 words)

	Sumerian mythology : Sumerian Mythology
		The religion of the Sumerians was polytheistic, with a god or goddess representing forces or presences in the world much like in the later Greek mythology.
		Humans were originally created as servants for the gods, but were freed when they became too much for the gods to handle.
		Many stories in Sumerian religion are homologous to stories in other middle-eastern religions.
	www.findword.org /su/sumerian-mythology.html (445 words)

	The Arcane Archive - Sumerian Mythology FAQ (Version 1.0)
		To: alt.mythology From: mouser@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher B Siren) Subject: Re: FAQ: Sumerian Mythology 1.0 (LONG) Sumerian Mythology FAQ (Version 1.0) by Christopher Siren, 1992, Oct. 1994 note: This FAQ still needs revision, much of the material, particularly that concerning Inanna, Dumuzi, and the Underworld, is repeated throughout the text.
		He is also banished to the nether world (kur) for his rape of Ninlil, his intended bride, but returns with the first product of their union, the moon god Sin (also known as Nanna).
		(Kramer, Sumerians 1963: pp.118-121) The me were assembled by Enlil in Ekur and given to Enki to guard and impart to the world, beginning with Eridu, Enki's center of worship.
	www.arcane-archive.org /faqs/faq.sumrmth.9410.php (4880 words)

	The Arcane Archive - Sumerian Mythology FAQ (Version 2.0html)
		5/13/99) John Halloran has a Sumerian Language Page at: http://www.sumerian.org/ I have constructed a rudimentary Sumerian-English, English Sumerian glossary using Kramer's The Sumerians and Jacobsen's Treasures of Darkness, although parties interested in the Sumerian language may be better served at the prior two pages.
		Another important concept in Sumerian theology, was that of me. The me were universal decrees of divine authority.
		Many of the myths are more developed here, some of which are only glossed over in The Sumerians, however in some cases The Sumerians holds the more complete or updated myth.
	www.arcane-archive.org /faqs/faq.sumrmth.0007.php (11160 words)

	Middle Eastern Mythology, Sumerian Mythology, Gilgamesh, Hurrian Mythology, Aratta, Armenian Mythology
		Its name means "twin" in Akkadian, and thus was it portrayed on Babylonian cylinder seals --a twin-peaked mountain, described by poets as both the seat of the gods, and the underworld (60).
		In "Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta", the goddess and/or her statue were taken from Aratta to the Sumerian city of Uruk by the ruler of Uruk, Enmerkar.
		In a second Sumerian myth, "Enmerkar and Ensuhkeshdana", the lord of Aratta demands the submission of Enmerkar, king of Uruk, and the return of the goddess Inanna to her home in Aratta.
	rbedrosian.com /Memyth.htm (2325 words)

	The White Goddess - Articles - Sumerian Mythology
		The Sumerians thought that a great domed roof contained the sky, the stars, the moon, and the sun which lighted the cities beneath it; they also believed that below the earth swirled the dim netherworld, a fearsome abode of demons and the kingdom of the dead.
		Nammu, Goddess of the Primeval Sea, "the mother who gave birth to heaven and earth." In the Sumerian cosmogony, firstly there is the primeval sea, called Nammu which was the endless sea in which the universe floated.
		Enlil is said to have been responsible for the me, a set of universal laws governing all existence.
	www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk /articles/sumerian.asp (413 words)

	Sumerian Mythology
		Each of the four major Sumerian deities is associated with one of
		In the prologue, Enki sails for the Kur, presumably to
		Another possible Sumerian carry-over related to the Fall of man is the
	www.illuminati-news.com /sumerian-mythology.htm (3510 words)

	Madre Oscura - Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum - Prologue Premises and methodologies
		Perhaps the greatest casualty of cultural and academic wars in the west of the last quarter century was a defensive turning inward that prevented beleaguered cultural groups challenging the dominant paradigm - white male supremacy - from seeing that there were allies across the lines.
		A triple consciousness may be glimpsed today in the writings of Rose Romano, poet and novelist, who searches for her great grandmothers in Africa, her grandmothers in Sicily, and her mother in America.
		The centrality of a venerated woman in folklore of Old Europe was uncovered in the 1980s by Marija Gimbutas in work linking archeology and mithology, a field she called archeomythology.
	www.medmedia.org /pubblicazioni/MetodoUtiling.htm (5884 words)

	Politics Forum .org - View topic - Sumerian is an ancient Turkish Language....
		Additionally the Sumerian (Ki-en-gi(r)) city name URUK is very much the same as the Turkic URUK / ÖRÜK (örük/örülmüs) meaning "interwoven, built up" as in the case of a city.
		In view of all these Sumerian and Turkish linguistic correspondences in the given Sumerian titles and names, if Sumerian and Turkish are not regarded as the same language by scholars, then they are looking for something that is not there.
		After the Sumerian Civilization faded away the Egyption pharoh's(which in many ways adapted Sumerian Traditions into their culture) marked their eyes to look like ancient Sumerian Kings (The amblem of AMON-RA or just RA is another proof of this tradition).
	www.politicsforum.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=37380&sid=208d15613aeb10cccfc33174a7789f78 (6764 words)

	Amazon.com: Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C. by Samuel Noah Kramer
		The book excellently gives a rundown of the pantheon of Sumerian Gods, the acculturation of Sumerian mythology into Semitic and translates a goodly portion (sometimes inaccurately as the preface warns!) of the tablets.
		Whilst any serious Sumerian scholar must move on to latter translations and works, this is a good starting point, particularly for those wanting to see a 'decipherment' in progress.
	www.amazon.com /Sumerian-Mythology-Spiritual-Achievement-Millennium/dp/0812210476 (1294 words)

	Encyclopedia Mythica: Mesopotamian mythology
		The beliefs and practices of the Sumerians and Akkadians, and their successors, the Babylonians and Assyrians.
		These religious beliefs and practices form a single stream of tradition.
		Sumerian in origin, Mesopotamian religion was added to and subtly modified by the Akkadians in subsequent years.
	www.pantheon.org /mythica/areas/mesopotamian (156 words)

	Burzum Forum - Alien parenthood to humans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		They came here in need of gold, with which to protect their dwindling atmosphere.
		Found a Genesis in the Nature and Cosmos anyway where humans actually living if we are the "fruit" of an evolution of a middle crisis superstion Force...
		Found interesting in Mithology where Divine - Human and Beast were perfectly accopiated, for example ISIS, HORUS OR ANUBI AND SETH...
	www.burzum.com /forum/YaBB.pl?num=1170381172 (498 words)

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		In the beginnin', there was the sumerian Bab- Lal-Uru, which is
		It's a symbol of the "regeneration of nature".
		Ninhursag = sumerian goddess, protector of soil, fertility and love,
	www.angelfire.com /empire/fireangel/phenomen-31/SW-02.html (3219 words)

	Gods And Religions Of Eternal Lands - Eternal Lands Official Forums
		I think (some) people might focus too much on these being a "standard" fantasy world, inspired from northern european mithology.
		Actually even that would be cool with me, but i'd rather not have it inspired too much from a couple of 20th century fantasy books.
		Six different racial beliefs - that would be the magnitude of the task I was describing.
	www.eternal-lands.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=9070&st=20 (3370 words)

	the Siren of the Woods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I'm not an expert in akkadian I study sumerian, but I get around in akkadian as well, and that text does not seem to be too grammatical..Don't missunderstand me, I'm not complaining about that, I like the lyrics and the song very much!
		Well, Nergal lives in some kind of hell in the Mesopotamian mithology, and he is not alone, he lives with Ereshkigal, the sister of Ishtar one of the most powerful godesses of that mithology.
		Well, don't missunderstand me, I didn't wanted to make critics on the song, as I love it the way it is. I study Sumerian, but have some knowledge in Akkadian as well, that was why I said that the text is agrammatical, and somewhere not very consequent.
	www.megatherion.com /forum/index.php?topic=994.msg43251 (2825 words)

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