Mesopotamian Gods Family Tree
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.
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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.