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Anammelech

Babylonian Deities

Anammelech, according to the Hebrew Bible, was a Syrian and Mesopotamian deity worshipped alongside the god Adrammelech by settlers from Sepharvaim, an Assyrian city, and is described as a lunar deity venerated at Sepharvaim itself. Older scholarship connected his name to the Mesopotamian god Anu, but more recent interpretation holds that the first element of his name instead represents a masculine counterpart to the goddess Anat, as attested in Amorite personal names. Little else about his cult or attributes survives beyond this brief biblical and etymological record. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Attestation
Era of Attestation
from 700 BCE 3
Veneration Today
Historically attested; no continuous cult 1
Historicity
Not a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being 1
Identity
Gender
Female 2
Belief
Theology
Polytheistic: many gods 1
Function
Domain / Function
Moon 1
Sources
1. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
Anthony S. Mercatante, revised and expanded by James R. Dow, Facts on File
2. Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses
Nicole Brisch (ed.), Oracc / Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, University of Pennsylvania
3. The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel
Mark S. Smith, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2002Anammelech, 2 Kings, Assyrian-period Levant
Wikipedia, "Anammelech"
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