History
An
The oldest head of the Sumerian pantheon: the sky itself, father of the gods, and the older claimant to the sacred precinct at Uruk.
𒀭the sky, the first father
- Akkadian:
- Anu
- Epithets:
- father of the gods; lord of the sky; the older claimant of the Eanna.
- Kin:
- father of Enlil and (in most traditions) Enki; father of Inanna in the Uruk tradition.
In the myths:
the Sumerian pantheon's head in the oldest layers, receding as Enlil rises; grants Inanna the Bull of Heaven at her demand in the Epic of Gilgamesh; the Anu ziggurat at Uruk is his precinct.
Where they were worshipped
The city this power belonged to, and the periods our chronology places it in.
As attested
What the record has
Everything above is the myth as the texts and the scholarship have it, and the sources are listed so you can check us. The chronicle uses this figure; it does not add to them.
Sources
The pages this entry is drawn from. ORACC and ETCSL are the scholarly editions; the rest are general references.
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