Mesopotamian Gods Family Tree 

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For anyone wondering why some gods have two names, it’s because Mesopotamia wasn’t a place with a unified language. Early on, there were two completely unrelated language families: the Sumerian language family and the East Semitic language family. Whenever possible, this chart highlights the Sumerian name, since that one is earlier recorded. The ones that only have one name are that way either because the names in both are the same or because the god only gained prominence by the time the East Semitic languages began dominating the whole region.

"43,200 years a reign that surely will only be beaten by Quenn Elizabeth II" Couldn't agree more man

As an Iraqi (from Masopotamia land), I would like to thank you for documenting this! So appreciated! I read a lot of old books from my family's library (collected since centuries) and I always ended up finding it's very difficult to explain this to other cultures. There are even more details, but overall it is the best that you can do. Thank you! Sincerely, Sarah

As an Iraqi who lives in Nasiriyah, the center of the Sumerian civilization, I am proud of this great civilization of development, discoveries and achievements over 28 thousand years. historical and scientificIts discovery is 10% bad. If the remaining 90% are discovered, it will reveal facts and learn the secrets of the Sumerian civilization, and it will be a historical and scientific blow.

Epic of Gilgamesh: The world's first buddy cop movie

When Gilgamesh return to Uruk thinking that he not succeeded to gain the immortality and look at the walls of his city in this moment he realizes that the immortality not in how many years you live but in what do you do to be immortal so he became a good king and built a strong city and guess what after 5000 years we hear about him what a great epic

This is incredible! I have never found a description of the Mesopotamian myths put side-by-side with each other in all of their interpretations as you just stood which really helps put it into context and even some in chronological order. Thank you so much for this!

Thank you! I love to see someday these Myth open their ways to todays lessons, movies, games...people should know more about these.

"Enlil couldn't sleep because there were too many humans making too much noise. So he decided to kill every living thing...." Harsh, but fair.

Enki : why creat a family tree when you can creat a family circle

I'm gonna be bombarding these chart videos on mythology gods soon. I'm hyped. Good stuff dude

I've listened to and read a lot about the Anunnaki but have never heard it in this context I literally couldn't stop laughing, thank you I needed that

Inanna was truly the first gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss.

As a dude living in Babylon city (hilla) I’m very enlightened by this video, I would also like to say that in Babylon ruins if you go you can actually see mud huts that are buried in sand and when it rains people usually find fragments of urns and even gold!

Beautiful description! Thank you ,merci infiniment!

Thank you for your work. I was so confused about all the connections and overlaps within the deities and their roles but this video helped me to comprehense through it that even Wikipedia couldn't do properly.

"...that the other gods felt that Inanna had it coming" is such a reoccurring feeling in my reading of Mesopotamian mythology. She is either totally deserving of all her renoun, or she is the pettiest deity between the rivers, no in-between

The flood Myth makes perfect sense for a people who lived where they did on huge flood plane between 2 huge rivers. Didn't flood all the time but when it did it destroyed almost everything until they started building bigger and controlling the water better.

This is amazing! Thank you🌹

YEEEEESSSSS 🔥 Thank you for doing this work!

Of course Gilgamesh is real, I heard he fought King Arthur In Japan Edit: This is a Fate reference.

"He summons a wind...!" We all know the feeling!

That was fantastic! Thank you so much :-)

I always wonder about random things. I never really thought about the oldest identifiable human remains but that's an interesting thought. Also, I've always thought the Epic of Gilgamesh was pretty gnarly. It's just cool how it's so old but still a good story and has recognizable themes and archetypes and everything - like it feels almost like it could have been written much more recently.

13:25 - "Dumuzid fails to mourn her properly" Now THAT'S an understatement. lmao. Dude was having a blast while his wife was functionally dead.

Thank you for the collab! Great video guys!

I've been studying and researching this for the last 8 years.... Every religion, mythology and historical lore human history produced on a global scale - the major stuff anyways - carry the most similarities amongst the Canon of Gods and Goddesses that ruled over humans in the Past. From Enki, to Zeus, to Odin, to Osiris, the list continues.... Through countless hours and years of piecing texts, stories, myths and good ole interpretive reasoning I've slowly begun giving our past a chance at telling the truth as a whole. Enki can be identified with Zeus, somewhat. But so do the stories of biblical figures like Noah. Or Gilgamesh as being the great grandson of Uta-Napishtum(Noah's Babylonian Name). Not to mention the connected cataclysmic event that every culture recorded and adopted. This video helps me a lot. So thank you

This video was amazing, loved every second very informative. Can I ask, are you an historian?

Gilgamesh knows how to deal with thirsty gals.

Ah yes just like Sappo and her friend, Enkidu and Gilgamesh were roommates lol

Thank you so much this was very helpful

For that, i subscribed. Very great ill watch this again

If you ever end up revisiting this topic, I’d be very interested in seeing these names plotted across a map, time, or even both. It’s hard to understand where and when these figures were held in belief, or just referenced.

As an Assyrian, I love learning about the religions that my ancestors practiced before Christianity. Keep these videos coming!

your queen elizabeth joke has aged well.

Remember the phrase that "this bread is my flesh, this wine is my blood" etc? Well, that's originally from Dumuzid/Tammuz. Dumuzid is Sumerian name while Tammuz is Babylonian, Akkadian and Assyrian name. Tammuz dies and goes to underworld every year in the mid summer, when the rivers recede, plants and ground dies, and barleys are harvested. People cries after Tammuz while handmill grinding the barley into flour, because that is Tammuz they are grinding into flour. So they make bread and that is flesh of Tammuz "bread is my flesh". Fun fact, 5000 years later people still cry after Tammuz in Jerusalem in front of "The Wailing Wall" and I bet they don't know who they're crying for. Another fun fact, the month July is still called "Temmuz (Tammuz)" in Turkey. Another fact is that "Layla & Majnun" love story from 7th century is "Dumuzid & Inanna"s story. In "Nowruz" which is still celebrated every year at spring equinox in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan is basicly celebration of sacred marriage of Dumuzid and Inanna where rain and earth meets, plants grows and gives fruits. It is basicly a new year celebration and it was always celebrated as new year for thousands of years before moving new year to month January 1st. Every folklore and tradition can be traced back to Sumerians.

according to the list, Gilgamesh is a member of the first dynasty of Uruk the successors of the dynasty of Kish.

Sumarian lore is a forerunner to Greek myth in alot of ways

Somebody forgot Enki's son, Ningishzida.

Loved this… thx!

I love that the name "Shamash" (the sun) has survived until today in modern Arabic and Hebrew. Also, Nabu (Nabi) also means prophet in Arabic.

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Thanks that was a bunch....wow nice narration

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Thank you so much for the fascinating precise information and presentation. I am off to watch the other videos you mentioned. I appreciate your research and time making this video which is incredibly helpful. Xxx

18:50 The fact that this is the only joke placed in the end of a 24 min long video has me dying

Great video; thanks for posting. Loved the part about her being smacked in the face with the leg. I got a good LOL.

Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles book series is a MUST read which covers all of this in great detail!

Outstanding and educational. Thank you Gentlemen. The ancient depiction of Gilgamesh slaying the bull is eerily similar to paintings of Mithra found in numerous Roman Mithraeum Temples. I am persuaded to believe that later religions were heavily influenced by early myths and legends, some continuing down to this very day.

A great collab! Mike is a class act, good choice.

All mythologies are so intriguing! Also kinda surprised and glad how much accurate info they used about mesopotamian gods in Fate/Grand Order - Babylonia series :D

Great info.

You sold me when you mentioned annunaki my favorite religious story ever, honestly it's more interesting then greek/Roman Egyptian mythology so thank you thank you for this in simpler terms then how I learned I almost wrote out hahah but remembered last time I did that some one in the Comment said I was an insecure little girl, the girl part didn't bug me just someone getting mad because I wrote out hahah so my message wouldn't be interpreted as malicious

Would you like to make a chart on all mythological versions of the great deluge and how they influenced each other?

I don’t think queen eliz will be beating that record anymore 😅😅

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I don’t think Utu is wearing a spirally hat, Gods in Mesopotamia often have headwear that are adorned with upwards sweeping horns, as can be seen in surviving statues of Lamassu, mythological guardian that are kinda like the Mesopotamian versions of Sphinxs. I think the spirally patterns are three sets of closely packed horns viewed in profile.

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Great job 👍

18:50 well that aged nicely….

Quick the holy grail war is about to start. Masters summon your servants, I got some cocky dude with golden armor.

This is going to get really old really fast...

wow ! that was a lot to take in . vary interesting i must say wow. good stuff sir and take care. WOW!

That was very interesting and funny. Well done

Enki sounds like a type of Loki character :-)

magnificent! I love this story of Gilgamesh! as well as story of Enlil and Enki!

They just said Enlil flooded and killed all humans because he couldn’t sleep. How is that benevolent. That’s the most malevolent thing I ever heard.

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14:28, That is super funny! I had no idea. Also, small note; I was taught in college that his helmet is a depiction of four sets of horns. Nearly all of the depictions you show here have them, and they are supposed to designate a hierarchy of godly power, more horns more power.

Thank you for your work on this subjects im dyslexic so use you tube because evrey thinks like an audio book and i find it hard to find and listen to credible info on the anunnaki with out this gia chanal and alian bullcrap this is a real passion of mine and you actually make it possible thank you so much 😊

Hi! Can you make one for the Canaanite gods, i.e., one where we could see El, Athirat (Asherah), Ba'al, and Anat? Thank you! :-)

While I find these videos entertaining and informative, I must admit, my greatest education comes from within the comments! Very very cool!

FGO has prepared me for this!

I was of the understanding that some of the bricks in the massive wall structure that surrounds Uruk are stamped with the name of Gilgamesh? A wall described in texts that is indeed there! In the end of the epic it tells of the death and and burial of Gilgamesh and how the river was diverted and his tomb built at the bottom of the river and then re-diverted over the tomb. Several years ago ground penetrating radar undertaken at Uruk discovered what seems to be that exact scenario. No further excavation or investigation has officially taken place since, unfortunatly.

Awesome video as always Off topic but I was searching for years my childhood Greek mythology picture book that lead me to loving mythology and finally I was able to find it from a image search of the picture you used when explaining Anshar and Kishar Thanks a lot!! To people who may be interested D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths

Would love to see this continued to include the evolution of belief in Gods to today across cultures.

I like how you mentioned the similarities between the story of Inanna, Dumuzid, and Enkidu, and the story in the Bible of Cain and Abel. But there is another Sumerian story that is similar to both, it's called "Enlil Chooses the Farmer God", which is about two characters called Emesh the shepherd and Enten the farmer.

That most beautiful & way too aggressive Bro~Mance epic to ever exist.

Need more mythology family trees please 🙏

Hi, first timer here. I’m 13 seconds in and I am gonna subscribe and like, because your name is Jack Rackam. The endless possibilities and power puns available with a name like that is unending!

Tiamat...that name sounds familiar... I never knew that D&D diety came from mesopotamian legend!

A lot of heavy metal bands in this pantheon.

what amazes me most, is that sacred geometry/math whatever you wanna call it are the ages of the kings in the kings list, and the fact that we use it daily with just telling time for example.. wish you would learn this in school.

Laughed really hard at 20:00 , "Apparently Gilgamesh REALLY misplaced them."

i love these videos so muchhhhhhhh they’ve gotten me thru covid omfg

From an Assyrian named Nimrod... thank you for making this video.

As a Mandaean, born and raised in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), is so proud of my ancestors. We influenced the whole world with our knowledge, inventions, and mythology.

If only you knew then how "long" Queen Elizabeth - II had left to live .

Thanks for the chart and video! Can you make one for the Canaanite pantheon too? :)

Love the history of humanity. Thank you for informing us!

Thank you. Interesting

Thanks V informative

Looking forward for Phoenician-Levant pantheon family 🙏🏻

Looking at the reliefs selected for each deity, man, it's no wonder Japan turned Ereshkigal into an anime girl...

Thank you! Excellent rundown. (See, it’s not so difficult Jim.)

Appreciations ….. great information ……🌞

Thanks for these Amazing Charts... from The Gods!!! I never heard of Key. When you start to see the original stories and timeline from Bible it shows that they really lived along time. Example by the time it gets to Methusula.. Only living about 900 years. .Hey just remember- Eve and Lilith were framed. It's so interesting when we figure out who Marduke really is. Yes Tell me about the Norse Pantheon.. Enki sounds like Loki

The deities of Babylon are just as old as Egyptian polytheistic religions. Yes i meant plural

This is a disbelieve idols