#mesopotania

Mesopotamia Mythilogy Aesthetic - Marduk

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The Anunnaki are deities of ancient Mesopotamian cultures (Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian) in areas now known as Iraq, Kuwait, Northeastern Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and Southwestern Iran. The name means “princely offspring” or “offspring of Anu”. Alternative translations such as “those who from the heavens came to earth” based on the work of Zecharia Sitchin have been rejected as pseudoscience. Their relation to the group of gods known as Igigi is unclear; at times the names are used synonymously but in the Atra-Hasis flood myth, the Igigi are the 6th generation of the gods who have to work for the Anunnaki, rebelling after 40 days and replaced by the creation of the first humans, possibly as a slave race. The Anunnaki appear in the Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish. In a late version magnifying Marduk, after the creation of mankind, Marduk divides the Anunnaki and assigns them to their proper stations, 300 in heaven, 300 on earth, and hence, they remained in charge, directing newly created slave races. The Anunnaki are mentioned in The Epic of Gilgamesh when Utnapishtim tells the story of the flood. According to later Assyrian and Babylonian myth, the Anunnaki were the children of Anu and Ki, brother and sister gods.