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Question
Sumerian religion was polytheistic. How?
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Solution
- Sumerian religion was polytheistic.
- They worshipped several Gods and Goddesses.
- Sumerians did not pay much attention to life after death.
- They did not build pyramids like the Egyptians.
- They worshipped Enlil, the god of sky and wind.
- The city of Nippur was the center of Intel's worship.
- Ninlil was the Goddess of grain.
- The Babylonians worshipped Marduk.
- Ashur was the supreme god of the Assyrians.
- Ishtar was the Goddess of love and fertility, Tiamat was the God of sea and chaos.
- The kings were seen as representatives of the Gods on earth.
- The Mesopotamians developed a rich collection of myths and legends.
- The most famous was the epic of Gilgamesh.
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