| has gloss | eng: Mesopotamian religion refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the various peoples living in Mesopotamia (around the area of modern Iraq) that lasted for a period of three thousand years from the fourth millennium to the first century BCE. Commonly thought of as a form of paganism, Mesopotamian religion was polytheistic, worshipping over two thousand different deities, many of which were associated with a specific city-state within Mesopotamia such as Sumer, Akkad, and later on Babylon. Some of the most significant of these deities were Anu, Enlil and later on Marduk. |
