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Polytheism in Mesopotamia

We have noted the existence of several ecologically difference religions in ancient south Mesopotamia.  Although they shared one religion, differences in their circumstances produced different ways of representing the same divine powers, and different emphases.  Even in adjacent cities, the same supernatural power might be known under different names.  Analogy with human society also multiplied deities; just as a human leader exercised authority through junior members of his family and other subordinates, so the chief god in a local pantheon was imagined as surrounded by members of his family, ministers and servants.  Every profession and activity was given its own deity, so that there were, for example, gods of brickmaking and deities of brewing.  And so there developed many local pantheons, each with many deities. There came a time when the scribes, who were great fact-grubbers and classifiers, attempted to inter-relate into a systematic scheme all the gods known in Sumerian culture: they put together  all deities  of all cities in Sumer (and even of such religions as they knew beyond)  and produced a most comprehensive pantheon, containing  some 3600 names.