Middle Eastern
ADDAD Canaan, Babylon, Assyria, Syria, Mesopotamia.
God of storms, earthquakes, floods, and furious winds.
Associated with lightning and the bull.
ADONIS Semitic god. Harvest, death, and resurrection.
Associated with the boar.
AHURA MAZDAH Persia and Zoroastrianism. God of universal
law, purification, and goodness. One of his symbols was
the winged disk.
ASSHUR Assyria, Babylon. Supreme god represented by a
winged disk. Fertility, protection, victory, and bravery.
Associated with the bull.
ASTARTE Known as Ashtart in Phoenicia. Queen of
Heaven. The moon, astrology, victory, revenge, and
sexual love. Among her symbols were the eight-pointed
star and the crescent.
DUMUZI/TAMMUZ Mesopotamia, Sumeria. Called the
Anointed God. Harvest and fertility.
EA/ENKI Mesopotamia, Babylon, Sumeria. Creator god of
carpenters, stonecutters, and goldsmiths; patron of all
the arts. Associated with the goat, the fish, the eye, and
the vase.
ENLIL/BEL Sumeria, Babylon, Assyria. King of the gods.
Destructive winds, hurricanes, floods, storms, and the
laws.
INANNA Canaan, Phoenicia, Sumeria, Uruk, Babylon.
Queen of the Heavens. Defense, victory, love, fertility,