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

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

Anunnaki, Enuki - any of a group of powerful Babylonian earth spirits or genii; servitors of the gods

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 - an ancient Semitic fertility goddess; identified with Phoenician Astarte and Babylonian Ishtar

Astarte - a fertility goddess; counterpart of Ashtoreth and Ishtar

Ishtar, Mylitta - goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart of Ashtoreth and 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'

Lilith - in ancient Semitic folklore: a female demon who attacks children

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 Ammonites 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; first-born of Bel and consort was Gula; god of war and the chase and agriculture; sometimes identified with Biblical Nimrod