Mesopotamian Divine Beings

Mesopotamian Divine Beings gathers two linked classes of deities recorded across Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian religious texts. The Anunnaki are described as the descendants of the sky god An and the earth goddess Ki, a senior generation of the pantheon whose collective role was to decree the fates of humanity. The Igigi, a term later used almost interchangeably with Anunnaki, were originally the younger generation of heavenly beings who served the Anunnaki as laborers according to the Atrahasis myth, until their rebellion led the gods to create humanity to take over their work. The two classes together frame the generational structure of the ancient Mesopotamian pantheon.