Talk:An = Anum

About Godess Ki being considered a primarly god amongst the gods mentioned on the list
Ki is mentioned on this "book". JorgeGayou92 (talk) 07:01, 18 April 2023 (UTC)


 * It is a book, made on clay tablets, thats why it is on quotation Marks. and the tablet, even on short term relations is completely open about Ki. Im Sorry but I think you're wrong. 177.240.140.40 (talk) 15:13, 24 April 2023 (UTC)


 * First, it's not a book, it's a series of clay tablets. Second, Anu is paired with Antu on tablet I, which is already reflected by the article, and none of his spouses have separate sections the way major deities do, you can quite literally read the list for yourself, it's linked in the bibliography (Litke 1998). There is no separate Ki section, Ki was not a major goddess, she was not even usually a personified figure (see Lambert's 2013 Babylonian Creation Myths for details), these are virtually undisputable facts, the Assyriological consensus. The fact someone presumably saw her in an ancient aliens video or a book from 50 years ago - the usual "sources" people find Ki in since in actual primary sources Urash and Antu appear much more commonly - does not mean we're going to change what the text itself and commentaries on it say. The closest to Ki you will get in An = Anum is the logogram AN.KI given as a writing of the names Anu and Antu - for users who do not want to go through the whole list, there's a summary courtesy of Walther Sallaberger here.

In particular it strikes me as disruptive to insert Ki between Ninhursag and Enki - both the sequence in the lead and the article as a whole are arranged in the same order as the sections in the actual list is, and Ki is definitely not there. The Ninhursag section concludes with her children and Enki immediately follows, no trace of Ki is to be found on tablet II. HaniwaEnthusiast (talk) 07:58, 18 April 2023 (UTC)