• Enuma Anu Enlil (𒌓𒀭𒈾𒀭𒂗𒆤𒇲 U4 AN.na dEN.LÍL.lá, lit. When [the gods] Anu and Enlil [...]), abbreviated EAE, is a major series of 68 or 70 tablets...
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    astronomical series Enuma Anu Enlil. In Enuma Anu Enlil, the creation of the universe was credited to Anu, Enlil and Ea, while in Enuma Elish the creation...
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    Furthermore, the inclusion of Enlil (Illilos) as an equal of Ea (Aos) and Anu (Anos) indicates that while similar to the Enūma Eliš, the source used was not...
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    The Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa (Enuma Anu Enlil Tablet 63) is the record of astronomical positions for Venus, as preserved in numerous cuneiform tablets...
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    foundations of what would eventually become Western astrology. The Enuma anu enlil, written during the Neo-Assyrian period in the 7th century BC, comprises...
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    evidenced in the compilation of a comprehensive reference work known as Enuma Anu Enlil. Its contents consisted of 70 cuneiform tablets comprising 7,000 celestial...
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  • Egalkura spells • Elegies Mourning the Death of Tammuz • Enlil and Sud • Enuma Anu EnlilEnûma Eliš • Epic of Anzu • Epic of Gilgameš • Epic of the Kassite...
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    Bible portal Judaism portal Islam portal Babylonian astronomy Borsippa Enuma Anu Enlil Eridu Evolutionary linguistics List of tallest structures Minar (Firuzabad)...
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    millennium BCE. Tablets on Babylonian astronomical records (such as Enuma Anu Enlil and MUL.APIN) date back to around 1800 BCE. Tablets discussing astronomical...
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    has pointed out that since the system is found in the tradition of Enuma anu enlil, its roots may extend into the second millennium BCE. Joanne Conman...
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    has been preserved on a tablet called Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa (Enuma Anu Enlil 63). Twenty copies and fragments have been recovered, all Neo-Assyrian...
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    tablets known as the Enūma Anu Enlil. The oldest significant astronomical text that we possess is Tablet 63 of the Enūma Anu Enlil, the Venus tablet of...
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    astronomy and indeed all Western efforts in the exact sciences. The Enuma anu enlil, written during the Neo-Assyrian period in the 7th century BC, comprises...
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    omen. In the 2nd millennium BC, Mesopotamian scholars composed the Enūma Anu Enlil, a collection of at least seventy tablets concerned with omens. The...
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  • Anshar (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    of Anos (Anu), Illinos (Enlil) and Aos (Ea). It is presumed that Eudemus relied on a source related to the tradition represented by the Enūma Eliš, but...
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    360 degrees. Babylonian astrology Babylonian calendar Constellation Enuma Anu Enlil Triple deity Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa History of the Constellations...
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    on clay tablets. Two collections of tablets, for example, are the Enuma Anu Enlil (1600–1200 BC) and the MUL.APIN (7th century BC). In these tablets...
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    tablets known as the 'Enūma Anu Enlil'. The oldest significant astronomical text that we possess is Tablet 63 of 'Enūma Anu Enlil', the Venus tablet of...
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    Marduk (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    Underworld" was placed in Enlil's sanctuary in Babylon, and Marduk receives the title bēl mātāti "king of the lands" in the Enuma Elish. The previous patron...
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    constellations. Asia portal Astronomy portal Babylonian star catalogues Enuma anu enlil Urra=hubullu John H. Rogers, "Origins of the ancient constellations:...
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    from the appearance and movement of celestial bodies on the one hand (Enūma Anu Enlil), and from the appearance of a sacrificed sheep's liver on the other...
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    The oldest known significant astronomical text is Tablet 63 of the Enûma Anu Enlil collection, the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, which lists the first and...
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    Code of the Nesilim 1600 BC: Akkadian Ḫulbazizi, Eridu Genesis and Enuma Anu Enlil 1600 BC: Egyptian Edwin Smith Papyrus 1550 BC: Egyptian Book of the...
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  • goes on to list works such as the great omen series of astrological (Enūma Anu Enlil) and terrestrial (Šumma Ālu) portents. Subtitled the niṣirti E[zida]...
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    Abzu (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    The act of procreation led to the birth of the younger gods: Enki, Enlil, and Anu. Anchored in the Tablet of Destinies, they founded an organisation to...
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  • Mummu (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    separate from gods understood as still active in the present, like Enlil or Ea. In the Enūma Eliš, Mummu fulfills the roles of a divine vizier (sukkal) and...
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    Tiamat (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    arrows of the winds, a net, a club, and an invincible spear. Anu was later replaced first by Enlil, and (in the late version that has survived after the First...
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    Anunnaki (category Characters in the Enūma Eliš)
    oldest of the Anunnaki was Enlil, the god of air and chief god of the Sumerian pantheon. The Sumerians believed that, until Enlil was born, heaven and earth...
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  • evidenced in the compilation of a comprehensive reference work known as Enuma Anu Enlil. Its contents consisted of 70 cuneiform tablets comprising 7,000 celestial...
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    The Hymn to Enlil, Enlil and the Ekur (Enlil A), Hymn to the Ekur, Hymn and incantation to Enlil, Hymn to Enlil the all beneficent or Excerpt from an...
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