Anu

An ( Sumerian An, Akkadian Anu and Anum ) was the city god of Uruk and The. In the cuneiform was an eight-pointed star characters, which was preceded by a determinative Dingir / Digir all other gods name. With the exception of his ancestors Uras, Ansar and kisar he was the ancestor of all the gods of the Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian pantheon. An is the Sumerian word for " sky " or "Top ".

When heaven and earth separated from each other, and the universe was created in its current form, he became the ruler of the sky. Its properties were included in many other ancient Near Eastern deities. Nevertheless, to a colorless God, from whom relatively little is known and the back stood in the tradition behind its mean their children. If An was described, then usually as grumpy, unfriendly and rather misanthropic God. Anu is the patron god of the exorcist, one of his epithets is mupaššir nambûrbe idāti ITATI limnēti Sunate pardāte la ṭādâte, "He who gives to the Exorzistismen power with the pašāru events with bad omen and the impact of confused and wicked dreams to prevent " (King BMS 62 1 12).

In older Sumerian texts, the earth goddess Uras is his wife. In more recent it is then Ki (Sumerian for soil) or his daughter Inanna. In the Akkadian tradition was to the husband of the goddess Ki derived from Antum. He was, among other things also the father of Martu, Erra, Baba, Gibil, Nisaba, Enlil, Gatumdu, Lamaštu, the weather god işkur ( regionally known as Adad, Addu and Hadad ) and the Seven deity. As Sin, Šamaš and Ishtar / Inanna were trying to rule the world to share with you, sent out to his child, the seven deity against Sin, Sin which encircled, sparking a lunar eclipse. Only Ea could liberate Sin.

The cult of Babylonian and Assyrian At occurred in time in the background, he was overshadowed by Marduk and Assur. However, it should be BC in Uruk came in the 3rd century in the Seleucid period to a renaissance of Anu Antum cult.

An important role played at in astronomy, where the band was designated along the celestial equator as a way of Anu. The fixed stars by reasonably three zones: either the paths of Enlil north, the paths of Anu in the central region or the ways of Ea ( Enki ) south of the celestial equator. The 70 panels comprehensive canonical series Enuma Anu cuneiform tablet contains 7000 Enlil omen associated with symptoms of moon, sun, planets and fixed stars.