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Anunnaki

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[ah-noon-nah-kee] / ɑˈnʊn nɑ ki /

noun

(used with a plural verb)
  1. various unnamed Sumerian deities who constituted the divine assembly presided over by An and Enlil and of whom seven were judges in the afterworld.


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The Anunnaki gods carried torches of fire, scorching the country with brilliant flashes.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

Marduk, the King of the gods, divided … he set the Anunnaki up on high.

From The Babylonian Legends of the Creation by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

Besides the Igigi and Anunnaki there is still a third group of seven spirits, generally designated as the 'evil demons,' who represent the embodiment of all physical suffering to which man is subject.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris

Who hath made glad the hearts of the Anunnaki, who hath made them to … 113.

From The Babylonian Legends of the Creation by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

Anunnaki, gods, 114, 17:21; 116, 25; 116 n.

From The Epic of Gilgamish A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform by Langdon, Stephen

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