Once you’ve got enough of them, you can make them the core of a pair of transmitters that you can use to send and receive radio messages through hyperspace. With human senses and 2020s technology they just look like ordinary atoms of silicon, iron, etc., but with the right kind of machinery you can detect them, sift them out of the surrounding 3D atoms, and concentrate them. You can say that there are some rare atoms that naturally have a structure that extends into hyperspace. You also have situations like explicitly keeping Inanna of Uruk and Inanna of Zabalam apart and clarifying that when Inanna of Zabalam was worshiped in Uruk she was the same goddess as in Zabalam, not the local Inanna (this lead to a funny situation with "Inanna of Zabalam of Uruk" in a document from Larsa). ![]() I’d assume the spread of “Ishtar-Annunitum” under the rule of the Akkadian Empire probably did facilitate the rise of a separate goddess Annunitum - even though the “general” Ishtar became interchangeable with Inanna of Uruk. At the same time, this sort of fission very much could lead to the creation of a new deity. Off the top of my head, Enlil, Ninlil and Ninurta were installed in Dur-Kurigalzu by the priesthood from Nippur when the city was built, and I do not think there is any indication we were dealing with a separate Enlil and co., nor was the Ekur in Nippur abandoned as a result. ![]() Joan Goodnick Westenholz listed Akkadian, Amorite and Hurrian as the main contributors, but you can easily find more - Elamite deities here or there (and, on the other hand, you can find many Mesopotamian deities in Elam), Ishara straight from Ebla, a handful of Kassite gods, occasional deities with names which have no explanation in any known language and might correspond to linguistic substrates (not a single substrate though, and decidedly not some hellish “Proto-Euphratean” concocted by the court wizards of Proto-Indo-European studies) or immigrant groups from further away.Īt the same time when it comes to regional variants sometimes definitely the same deity was believed to be “divided” between temples: this is best known from the ritual for the “Goddess of the Night” from Kizzuwatna, where the formula is rather clear: “Honored deity! Preserve your being, but divide your divinity (.)!” However, it can be applied to Mesopotamia as well. ![]() We are not dealing with a simple “Sumerian gods and Akkadian equivalents” situation - rather, we are dealing with a framework, let’s call it Sumerian, into which elements from multiple other systems were incorporated in various ways. To begin with, the matter of conflation, syncretism or splitting of deities in ancient Mesopotamia is actually much more complex than older publications make it seem. ![]() To address this question, a crash course in Mesopotamian theology is necessary.
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