Nightmare monster of waters before creation w/ jaws on every joint; body destroyed to make the world

Violent Earth-Mother goddess - gives life & destroys life

Eyeless god of dusk, fire, and dogs --> seems to replace another prior bad-guy god

Vengeful moon goddess who wants to destroy Earth & 5th Sun for the insult of her mother having other children

God of agriculture, war, illness, & household chores; "Our Lord the Flayed One" (he has no skin)

The 5th Sun - patron god of the conquering Aztec Empire; nrrfd yo br powered by blood sacrifice in order to protect the world from the moon

The 3rd Sun - a rain god who goes through a bad divorce when Tez. steals his wife, & after a drought rains fire on humanity

"The Enemy of both sides" god of trickery, "the Smoking Mirror" god of jaguars, a dim and small 1st Sun

"Feathered Serpent" beloved god of arts & crafts, weather, a kind 2nd sun until Tez. ruined his world

"She of the Jade Skirt" a river goddess who was a loving & beloved 4th Sun until Tez said something horrible that caused her to cry tears of blood that flooded the world

God of Justice, law, & Sun; helps humanity by answering prayers & advocates for mercy for Enkidu

Golden KING god of the Babylonian Empire; his story is about how awesome he is and how eager other gods are to bow down to him

Beloved god of sea, fishing, wisdom, arts, & maker of humans. He warned a just man about the flood to build an ark to survive

Sky-dad head of the pantheon; flooded the world in judgment for the wickedness/disrespect and loud music of humanity. Authority w/o love

Most mysterious of the gods here, perhaps b/c of Underworld connections. Father of Ishtar who gives her the Bull of Heaven

Goddess of love, war, and fertility. Went to the Underworld for her husband Tammuz; requested the Bull of Heaven when Gilgamesh rejected her.

Queen of the Underworld enforcing the most important rule that the dead cannot leave; struck war goddess with 60 diseases for her insult

Poisonous Sea-Dragon, & primordial monster of evil whose body is destroyed to make the world; a Mother of Monsters

The man deemed by Enki to be just and deserving of surviving the flood; built and ark and is now immortal; tells the Hero of the Epic that he must submit to gods & be mortal

Wild Animal Man who is created to be beloved companion & equal to hero of the epic & make him stop being so terrible to everyone

Hero of the Epic that has his name; 2/3 divine and shaped by the gods to be King; builder of the city of Uruk who seeks immortality after his friend dies

Most important solar god, father of the pantheon & creator; retired from ruling the universe to sail his Barque of the Sun

"Universal Goddess" invented mummification for her murdered husband; goddess of magic, childbirth; gains Ra's true name for increased power & importance

First King of Egypt & fertility god who was assassinated by his brother; then became Ruler of the Underworld & Judge of Souls

God of fire, deserts, storms, betrayal; assassinated brother Osiris with a sarcophagus & continued in conflict later w/ nephew

Primordial Serpent of Chaos and the Evil One who is Ra's eternal enemy; each night he tries to kill Ra forever & bring eternal night

Son of the first king & queen of Egypt; born to avenge his murdered father & overthrow usurper uncle; rules the whole sky, sun, and moon

Jackal-headed god of funerals & mummification; holds scales to weigh the heart in judgment; acts as a psychopomp

Lion goddess of vengeance; made from Ra's eye to punish humans (later chilled out w/ potentially 2 other goddesses siphoned off from her essence)

Cat goddess of makeup, recreation, dance, the home, and healing

Cow goddess of fertility/procreation, alcoholic drink, and music

Goddess of truth & order who contributes the Feather of Truth to the weighing of a human heart in judgment

"Devourer of Souls" the goddess / demoness w/ the face of a crocodile, forelegs of a leopard or lioness, and hind legs of a hippo - she eats the souls of those who do not pass judgment

Ra's father, a primordial ocean of stars

The scarab god; Ra's helper with Dawn & resurrection each morning

Ibis-headed god of knowledge, thought, & writing; may have thought himself into existence; serves as scribe for Osiris

"The Lord of Appetite" - god of the Nile & fertility, has the head of a crocodile