Igigi

Igigi are the gods of heaven in the mythology of Mesopotamia. Though sometimes synonymous with the
term "Anunnaki", in one myth the Igigi were the younger gods who were servants of the Annunaki, until
they rebelled and were replaced by the creation of humans.[1]

Contents
Etymology
Atrahasis
See also
References
External links

Etymology
The name has unknown origin. The signs for the names, and one of the options for the etymology of the
igigi are i2-gi3-gi3, which are the same signs for 5-1-1 or 5-60-60 5*(60+60)=600 which are by some
traditions All the gods.[2] another option is to try to interpret the words themselves. Igi means (eye) in the
Sumerian language, and it used as logogram in the Akkadian language, gi stands for (penetrate sexually).[3]
Therefore, Igigi could be translated to (Eyes in the sky, the watchers, who deflower).[4]

Atrahasis
Akkadian Paradise is described as a garden in the myth of Atrahasis where lower rank deities (the Igigi) are
put to work digging a watercourse by the more senior deities (the Anunnaki).[5]

When the gods, man-like,

Bore the labour, carried the load,

The gods' load was great,
The toil grievous, the trouble excessive.
The great Anunnaku, the Seven,

Were making the Igigu undertake the toil.[6]

The Igigi then rebel against the dictatorship of Enlil, setting fire to their tools and surrounding Enlil's great
house by night. On hearing that toil on the irrigation channel is the reason for the disquiet, the Anunnaki
council decide to create man to carry out agricultural labour.[6]

See also
 Anunnaki
Grigori

References
1. Leick, Gwendolyn: A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology (NY: Routledge, 1998), p.
85
2. "igigi in §4" (http://personal.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/mesopotamia.html). Archived (https://web.
archive.org/web/20160305034431/http://personal.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/mesopotamia.html)
from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
3. The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/epsd/e2510.html)
4. Strassman, Rick; Wojtowicz, Slawek; Luna, Luis Eduardo; Frecska, Ede (2008). Inner Paths to
Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual
Technologies. Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. p. 239. ISBN 1594779996.
5. William P. Brown (June 1999). The ethos of the cosmos: the genesis of moral imagination in
the Bible (https://books.google.com/books?id=s3ZlfcO3fZgC&pg=PA140). Wm. B. Eerdmans
Publishing. pp. 140–. ISBN 978-0-8028-4539-9. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
6. Millard, A.R., New Babylonian 'Genesis' Story (http://www.tyndalehouse.com/TynBul/Library/Ty
nBull_1967_18_01_Millard_BabylonianGenesis.pdf), p. 8, The Tyndale Biblical Archaeology
Lecture, 1966; Tyndale Bulletin 18, 3-18, 1967.

External links
Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses: Igigi/Igigu (a group of gods) (http://oracc.museu
m.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/igigi/)

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