#aranzah

[bronzegods]

The Pantheon universe, a summary

What is the Pantheon universe?

Pantheon is a series of mythological stories that take place from approximately 3000 BCE to 1200 BCE in the area known in modern times as SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa).

The stories assume the existence of each ancient culture’s deities while taking into account the historical conflicts between those cultures, resulting in a kind of “historical mythology” where historical conflict reflects upon the divine realm (E.G.: the Egyptian pantheon fighting the Hittite pantheon and allies in the Battle of Kadesh story).

What tags organize this blog?

Find Pantheon artwork: #iconography

Find Pantheon written work: #textcorpus

Find Pantheon lore (short posts): #lore

Find Papyrus Nabayat content: #papyrusnabayat

Find Baal Cycle content: #baalcycle

Find Battle of Kadesh content: #battleofkadesh

Individual mythology groups have their own tags below, as do some of the gods. Not all gods can be linked below for space reasons, but they are tagged.

Which gods have a prominent place in Pantheon?

Tags below the cut!

Syrian and Amorite Deities - #amorite mythology

Baal, Ugaritic god of storms #baal

Yam, Ugaritic god of the sea #yam

Mot, Ugaritic god of death #mot

Anat, Ugaritic goddess of war #anat

Astarte, Ugaritic goddess of hunting #astarte

Horon, Ugaritic god of exorcism #horon

Resheph, Ugaritic god of war, plague, and healing #resheph

Kothar, Ugaritic god of crafting #kothar

Khasis, Ugaritic goddess of crafting and war #khasis

Gupan, Ugaritic god of vineyards #gupan

Ugar, Ugaritic god of fields #ugar

Egyptian Deities - #egyptian mythology

Sutekh, god of storms, deserts, chaos, war #sutekh

Djehuty, god of knowledge, wisdom, scribes, the moon #djehuty

Hathor, goddess of love, sex, war, the sun, and music #hathor

Usire, god of the underworld and vegetation #usire

Aset, goddess of magic, wisdom, and motherhood #aset

Nebethut, goddess of darkness and mourning #nebethut

Ra, god of the afternoon sun #ra (also #khepri and #atum )

Khonsu, god of the moon, healing, and childhood #khonsu

Heru the Younger, god of kingship, the sun, and the moon #heru

Anpu, god of embalming the underworld #anpu

Ptah, god of crafting and creation #ptah

Sekhmet, goddess of war, plague, fire, healing #sekhmet

Nefertem, god of beauty and lotuses #nefertem

Sokar, god of the Memphite necropolis #sokar

Aten, god of the sun disc #aten

Hatti and Anatolian Deities - #anatolian mythology

Tarhunt, Nesian god of storms, war, and vineyards #tarhunt

Arinna, Hattic goddess of the sun #arinna

Telipinu, Hattic god of storms, fertility, and vegetation #telipinu

Nerik, Hattic god of storms and war #nerik

Ziplantil, Hattic god of storms and the underworld #ziplantil

Inara, Hattic goddess of hunting #inara

Aruna, Luwian god of the sea #aruna

Hasameli, Hattic god of crafting #hasameli

Taru, Hattic-Kaskian god of storms #taru

Zilipuri, Hattic-Kaskian god of crafting #zilipuri

Iluyanka, Hattic-Kaskian god of the Black Sea #iluyanka

Arma, Nesian god of the moon #arma

Kasku, Hattic god of the moon #kasku

Hurrian Deities - #hurrian mythology

Teššub, god of storms #tessub

Sauska, goddess of war and sex #sauska

Tasmisu, god of war #tasmisu

Aranzah, god of the Tigris River #aranzah

Kumarbi, god of grain and the underworld #kumarbi

Hebat, goddess of queenship #hebat

Kiase, god of the sea #kiase

Sarruma, god of the mountains #sarruma

Simige, god of the sun #simige

Kusuh, god of the moon #kusuh

Mukišanu, sukkal of Kumarbi #mukisanu

Impaluri, sukkal of Kiase, #impaluri

Umbu, Alalakhian god of the moon #umbu

Hedammu, god of the sea #hedammu

Sumerian and Babylonian Deities - #babylonian mythology

Enlil, god of storms and wind #enlil

Enki, god of the subterranean waters, crafting, wisdom #enki

Iškur, god of storms #iskur

Marduk, tutelary god of Babylon #marduk

Nabu, god of scribes, knowledge, and wisdom #nabu

Nisaba, goddess of scribes and grain #nisaba

Ninurta, god of war and storms #ninurta

Sharur, divine mace of Ninurta #sharur

Inanna, goddess of war and sexuality #inanna

Nergal, god of war #nergal

Nanna, god of the moon #nanna

Utu, god of the sun #utu

Ereškigal, goddess of the underworld #ereskigal

Assyrian Deities - #assyrian mythology

Aššur, tutelary god of the city Aššur #assur

Adad, Akkadian god of storms and war #adad

Erra, Akkadian god of war, pestilence, fire, and disorder #erra

[indo-europeans]

river goddesses

- aranzah of tigris

- saraswathi of haravati

- sinthu of indu

[luminousalicorn]

Effulgence again: I was really intrigued by the plotline where Juliet was gonna manifest her tiger (what would he have been named?) – was there a definitive plan? were she and Minus gonna be as cute as Shell Bell and Pearl? and, relatedly, by the unpealed thread with the not-Slayer!Sunnyworld Bell with a magic addiction & a more tense starting relationship w her Sherlock – was there a pealing plan for that? an overarching conflict beyond the personal? I think it would be really neat to see her interact w Juliet especially since she doesn’t have the opacity, haha

Aranzah.  I don’t remember having a pealing plan for Phaeton, but we were blocked on a Once More With Feeling style musical episode, I remember that.

[chthonicdivinebard]

In the Cycle of Kumarbi (Hoffner 1998:40-2) the generation of Gods who are ruling under Their king, who is the Supreme God of the actual pantheon, is preceded by several earlier generations of heavenly kings; the succession of these kings was often violent; and the rule of the present Supreme God has to be defended against attackers: the Succession Myth narrates how the present order of things came into being and notes that this order did not go unchallenged. In the Hittite Song of Kumarbi, the primeval King Alalu is deposed by Anu (Sky), His vizier; Anu's son and vizier, Kumarbi, then deposes Anu. During the struggle with Anu, Kumarbi bites off Anu's testicles and swallows them, thus impregnating Himself; in a complex action that is only partially understood, He gives birth to Teshub (the Storm-God), Teshub's vizier Tasmisu, the Aranzah River, and several other Gods. From that moment on, the rivalry between the ruling Kumarbi and the pretender Teshub dominates the song cycle. Kumarbi seems to have tried to swallow Teshub again but was tricked into eating an object, perhaps a stone. Teshub might have become king already in the Song of Kumarbi, but in other narratives, Kumarbi challenges Him through several intermediaries, among them the monstrous sea serpent Hedammu (Song of Hedammu) and the stone giant Ullikummi, fathered by Kumarbi through intercourse with a rock.

“Myth” by Fritz Graf in Ancient Religions edited by Sarah Iles Johnston (p 49)