SEMITIC DEITY

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• SEMITIC DEITY (noun)
  The noun SEMITIC DEITY has 1 sense:

1. a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites

  Familiarity information: SEMITIC DEITY used as a noun is very rare.

• SEMITIC DEITY (noun)

Meaning:

A deity worshipped by the ancient Semites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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:

Ningirsu (Babylonian god in older pantheon: god of war and agriculture)

Ningal ((Akkadian) a goddess; wife of the moon god Sin)

Nina (the Babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea)

Nergal ((Akkadian) god ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead)

Nanna (god of the moon; counterpart of the Akkadian Sin)

Namtar; Namtaru (a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind)

Nammu (goddess personifying the primeval sea; mother of the gods and of heaven and earth)

Nabu; Nebo (Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools)

Molech; Moloch (god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children)

Baal Merodach; Bel-Merodach; Marduk; Merodach (the chief Babylonian god; his consort was Sarpanitu)

Mama (a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped)

Ningishzida (an underworld Babylonian deity; patron of medicine)

Ninhursag; Ninkharsag; Ninkhursag (the great mother goddess; worshipped also as Aruru and Mama and Nintu)

Utu; Utug (sun god; counterpart of Akkadian Shamash)

Utnapishtim (favorite of the gods and grandfather of Gilgamish; survived the great flood and became immortal)

Tiamat ((Akkadian) mother of the gods and consort of Apsu)

Tashmit; Tashmitum (consort of Nabu)

Sin ((Akkadian) god of the moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna)

Shamash (the chief sun god; drives away winter and storms and brightens the earth with greenery; drives away evil and brings of justice and compassion)

Sarpanitu; Zarpanit; Zirbanit (consort of Marduk)

Ramman (god of storms and wind; corresponds to Babylonian Adad)

Nusku (god of fire and light; corresponds to Babylonian Girru)

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)

Nintoo; Nintu (a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped)

Zu; Zubird (evil storm god represented as a black bird)

Kishar (Babylonian consort of Anshar; in Sumerian the name signifies 'the totality of the lower world')

Bel (Babylonian god of the earth; one of the supreme triad including Anu and Ea; earlier identified with En-lil)

Baal (any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples; the Hebrews considered Baal a false god)

Ishtar; Mylitta (Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte)

Ashtoreth; Astarte (an ancient Phoenician goddess of love and fertility; the Phoenician counterpart to Ishtar)

Ashir; Ashur (chief god of the Assyrians; god of military prowess and empire; identified with Babylonian Anshar)

Aruru (mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic; identified with Sumerian Ki and Ninkhursag)

Apsu (father of the gods and consort of Tiamat)

Anu (Babylonian god of the sky; one of the supreme triad including Bel and Ea)

Antum (Babylonian consort of Anu)

Anshar (the Babylonian father of the gods; identified with Assyrian Ashur; in Sumerian the name signifies 'the totality of the upper world')

Adapa (a Babylonian demigod or first man (sometimes identified with Adam))

Dagon (god of agriculture and the earth; national god of Philistines)

Dagan (god of agriculture and earth; counterpart of Phoenician Dagon)

Ki (goddess personifying earth; counterpart of Akkadian Aruru)

Inanna (consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz))

Igigi (any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu)

Gula (the Babylonian goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta)

Girru (the Babylonian god of fire; often invoked in incantations against sorcery)

Eresh-kigal; Ereshkigal; Ereshkigel (goddess of death and consort of Nergal)

En-lil; Enlil (god of the air and king of the Sumerian gods)

Enki (water god and god of wisdom; counterpart of the Akkadian Ea)

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)

Dumuzi; Tammuz (Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna)

Damgalnunna; Damkina ((Babylonian) earth goddess; consort of Ea and mother of Marduk)

Adad (Babylonian god of storms and wind)