Gods’ Names of Ancient Times – Satisfactory but Actions Undesirable
Table of Contents The naming of the gods Gods' Names - Satisfactory or Undesirable? Adad Allah Anat Anu Ashur Baal Dagon Elohim Ishtar Marduk Shamash Yahweh (or YHWH) This writing argues that these names of God-gods of ancient times were satisfactory while their actions could be construed as undesirable, hence the polytheistic nature of their religions. The naming of the gods Many ancient religions associated meanings with the names given to the gods; meanings that arguably were derived from their life situations. Gods’ names were contextualized from roles that were deemed beyond the natural activities of humans or what humans could not naturally control. Such feats were attributed to the supernatural. We see these definite names of gods in ancient Mesopotamia as classical examples. One god could not have dealt with all the human problems or sorrows of their times. It is believed that the Semitic world shares many things in common. The Sumerians did not speak Semiti