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SEMITIC DEITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deity worshipped by the ancient Semites
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Semitic deity" is a kind of...):
deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)
Domain category:
antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Semitic deity"):
Lilith (in ancient Semitic folklore: a female demon who attacks children)
Anunnaki; Enuki (any of a group of powerful Babylonian earth spirits or genii; servitors of the gods)
Instance hyponyms:
Mama (a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped)
Baal Merodach; Bel-Merodach; Marduk; Merodach (the chief Babylonian god; his consort was Sarpanitu)
Molech; Moloch (god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children)
Nabu; Nebo (Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools)
Nammu (goddess personifying the primeval sea; mother of the gods and of heaven and earth)
Namtar; Namtaru (a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind)
Nanna (god of the Moon; counterpart of the Akkadian Sin)
Nergal ((Akkadian) god ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead)
Nina (the Babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea)
Ningal ((Akkadian) a goddess; wife of the Moon god Sin)
Ningirsu (Babylonian god in older pantheon: god of war and agriculture)
Ningishzida (an underworld Babylonian deity; patron of medicine)
Ninhursag; Ninkharsag; Ninkhursag (the great mother goddess; worshipped also as Aruru and Mama and Nintu)
Nintoo; Nintu (a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped)
Ninib; Ninurta (a solar deity; firstborn of Bel and consort was Gula; god of war and the chase and agriculture; sometimes identified with biblical Nimrod)
Nusku (god of fire and light; corresponds to Babylonian Girru)
Ramman (god of storms and wind; corresponds to Babylonian Adad)
Sarpanitu; Zarpanit; Zirbanit (consort of Marduk)
Shamash (the chief sun god; drives away winter and storms and brightens the earth with greenery; drives away evil and brings justice and compassion)
Sin ((Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna)
Tashmit; Tashmitum (consort of Nabu)
Tiamat ((Akkadian) mother of the gods and consort of Apsu)
Utnapishtim (favorite of the gods and grandfather of Gilgamish; survived the great flood and became immortal)
Utu; Utug (sun god; counterpart of Akkadian Shamash)
Zu; Zubird (evil storm god represented as a black bird)
Adad (Babylonian god of storms and wind)
Adapa (a Babylonian demigod or first man (sometimes identified with Adam))
Anshar (the Babylonian father of the gods; identified with Assyrian Ashur; in Sumerian the name signifies 'the totality of the upper world')
Antum (Babylonian consort of Anu)
Anu (Babylonian god of the sky; one of the supreme triad including Bel and Ea)
Apsu (father of the gods and consort of Tiamat)
Aruru (mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic; identified with Sumerian Ki and Ninkhursag)
Ashir; Ashur (chief god of the Assyrians; god of military prowess and empire; identified with Babylonian Anshar)
Ashtoreth; Astarte (an ancient Phoenician goddess of love and fertility; the Phoenician counterpart to Ishtar)
Ishtar; Mylitta (Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte)
Baal (any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples; the Hebrews considered Baal a false god)
Bel (Babylonian god of the earth; one of the supreme triad including Anu and Ea; earlier identified with En-lil)
Dagon (god of agriculture and the earth; national god of Philistines)
Dagan (god of agriculture and earth; counterpart of Phoenician Dagon)
Damgalnunna; Damkina ((Babylonian) earth goddess; consort of Ea and mother of Marduk)
Dumuzi; Tammuz (Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna)
Ea (the Babylonian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki; as one of the supreme triad including Anu and Bel he was assigned control of the watery element)
Enki (water god and god of wisdom; counterpart of the Akkadian Ea)
En-lil; Enlil (god of the air and king of the Sumerian gods)
Eresh-kigal; Ereshkigal; Ereshkigel (goddess of death and consort of Nergal)
Girru (the Babylonian god of fire; often invoked in incantations against sorcery)
Gula (the Babylonian goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta)
Igigi (any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu)
Inanna (consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz))
Ki (goddess personifying earth; counterpart of Akkadian Aruru)
Kishar (Babylonian consort of Anshar; in Sumerian the name signifies 'the totality of the lower world')
