Dwarven Deities

DWARVEN DEITIES

1. Marduk – god of war, kingship and state authority, loyalty, and oaths.
2. Ninmah/Ninhursag – goddess of fertility, mother of mountains, city walls and siege defense, and creator goddess of the Dwarves (made the first Dwarves out of stone, metal, and water)
3. Shamash – god of gentle light, warmth, morality, truth, magic, and the šamšatui
4. Ishtar/Inanna – goddess of love, sex, beauty, justice, and war (destructive war or war fueled by destructive emotional power, rather than the cold, logical, and ideally merciful war represented by Marduk).
5. Gibil – god of heat and fire (destructive light and warmth, rather than Shamash’s life-giving light and warmth), and the forge/metalworking.
6. Enki – god of water, knowledge, writing, craftsmen, and merchants.
7. Enlil – god of wind, air, storms, and miners
8. Enten – god of coldness, winter, and hardship
9. Ereshkigal/Irkalla – goddess of the dead, queen of the underworld (*Kur*)
10. Nergal – husband of Ereshkigal/Irkalla; god of fevers and plagues
11. Gula/Ninkarrak – goddess of mundane healing, and medicine
12. Ninazu – god of reptiles, spiders, immortality, and death
13. Ninurta – god of hunting, farming, and protection from demonic possession
14. Nabu – god of philosophy, prophecy, and wisdom (knowledge gained through life experience, rather than Enki's knowledge gained through learning)
15. Iškur – god of thunder and lightning
16. Ningišzidda – god of vegetation (esp. fungi, algae, lichen, and root vegetables)
17. Su'en/Nannar – god of the moon and cattle
18. Ninšubur – goddess of servants, slaves, and messengers