List of craters on Ganymede
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Ganymede
Ganymede (moon)
Ganymede is a satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the Solar System. It is the seventh moon and third Galilean satellite outward from Jupiter. Completing an orbit in roughly seven days, Ganymede participates in a 1:2:4 orbital resonance with the moons Europa and Io, respectively...

 is the largest moon
Natural satellite
A natural satellite or moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet or smaller body, which is called its primary. The two terms are used synonymously for non-artificial satellites of planets, of dwarf planets, and of minor planets....

 in the solar system
Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...

, and thus has many craters
Impact crater
In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...

 covering its hard surface. Here is a list of Ganymedean craters that have been given names. Most are named after figures from Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and other ancient Middle Eastern myths.
Crater | Coordinates Diameter Year named Named after
Achelous
Achelous (crater)
Achelous is a relatively fresh crater on Ganymede adjacent to the similarly sized Gula. It has an outer lobate ejecta deposit extending about a crater radius from the rim....

 
61.8°N 11.7°W 40.0 1979 Achelous
Achelous
In Greek mythology, Achelous was the patron deity of the "silver-swirling" Achelous River, which is the largest river of Greece, and thus the chief of all river deities, every river having its own river spirit. His name is pre-Greek, its meaning unknown...

, Greek river god; father of Callirrhoe, Ganymede's mother.
Adad  57.5°N 358.1°W 39.0 1979 Adad
Adad
Adad in Akkadian and Ishkur in Sumerian and Hadad in Aramaic are the names of the storm-god in the Babylonian-Assyrian pantheon. All three are usually written by the logogram dIM...

, Assyro-Babylonian god of thunder.
Adapa  73.1°N 31.3°W 56.0 1979 Adapa
Adapa
Adapa was a Babylonian mythical figure who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality. The story is first attested in the Kassite period .-Roles:...

, Assyro-Babylonian; lost immortality when, at Ea's advice, he refused food of life.
Agreus  15.9°N 232.7°W 63.0 1985 Agreus
Agreus
In Greek mythology Agreus or Argeus and his brother Nomios are two of the Panes, creatures multiplied from the god Pan. They are human in shape, but have the horns of goats. Like Pan, both were the sons of Hermes, Argeus' mother being the nymph Sose, a prophetess: he inherited his mother's gift of...

, Hunter god in Tyre.
Agrotes  60.9°N 192.5°W 74.0 1985 Agrotes, Tyre; greatest god of Gebal; farmer god.
Aleyin  15.1°N 134.1°W 12.4 1997 Aleyin, Son of Ba'al, spirit of springs.
Ammura  31.7°N 342.4°W 61.5 1979 Ammura, Phoenician; god of the west.
Amon  33.7°N 220.7°W 101.8 1985 Amon
Amun
Amun, reconstructed Egyptian Yamānu , was a god in Egyptian mythology who in the form of Amun-Ra became the focus of the most complex system of theology in Ancient Egypt...

, Theban king of gods.
Amset  14.4°S 178.8°W 10.9 1997 Amset, One of the four gods of the dead, son of Horus.
Anat  4.1°S 127.9°W 2.9 1985 Anat
Anat
Anat, also ‘Anat is a major northwest Semitic goddess.-‘Anat in Ugarit:In the Ugaritic Ba‘al/Hadad cycle ‘Anat is a violent war-goddess, a virgin in Ugarit though the sister and lover of the great Ba‘al known as Hadad elsewhere. Ba‘al is usually called the son of Dagon and sometimes the son of El....

, Assyro-Babylonian goddess of dew. Note: Defines 128 degrees longitude on Ganymede.
Andjeti  52.8°S 161.1°W 52.5 1985 Andjeti, Egyptian; first god of Busirus.
Anhur  32.6°N 192.3°W 25.0 1997 Anhur
Anhur
In early Egyptian mythology, Anhur was originally a god of war who was worshipped in the Egyptian area of Abydos, and particularly in Thinis...

, Egyptian warrior god.
Antum  5.1°N 218.9°W 14.7 1985 Antum, Babylonian; wife of Anu.
Anu  65.2°N 344.3°W 55.0 1979 Anu
Anu
In Sumerian mythology, Anu was a sky-god, the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, Consort of Antu, spirits and demons, and dwelt in the highest heavenly regions. It was believed that he had the power to judge those who had committed crimes, and that he had created the stars as...

, Sumerian-Akkadian god of power, of heavens.
Anubis  84.2°S 128.9°W 113.8 1988 Anubis
Anubis
Anubis is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion. In the ancient Egyptian language, Anubis is known as Inpu . According to the Akkadian transcription in the Amarna letters, Anubis' name was vocalized as Anapa...

, Egyptian jackal-headed god who opened the underworld to the dead.
Anzu  63.5°N 62.5°W 205.0 2000 Anzu
Zu (mythology)
Zu, also known as Anzu and Imdugud, in Persian and Sumerian, is a lesser divinity of Akkadian mythology, and the son of the bird goddess Siris. He is also said to be conceived by the pure waters of the Apsu-gods and the wide Earth...

, Gigantic lion-headed bird-like figure, the Sumerian Thunderbird.
Apophis  8.0°S 276.0°W 65.0 2000 Apophis
Apep
In Egyptian mythology, Apep was an evil god, the deification of darkness and chaos , and thus opponent of light and Ma'at , whose existence was believed from the 8th Dynasty onwards...

, Egyptian gigantic serpent symbolizing chaos or nonexistence.
Ashîma  39.1°S 123.0°W 84.2 1985 Ashîm, Semitic-Arab god of fate.
Asshur  54.2°N 333.5°W 25.6 1979 Asshur
Ashur (god)
Ashur is the head of the Assyrian pantheon....

, Assyro-Babylonian warrior god.
Atra-hasis  22.5°N 254.2°W 125.0 2000 Atra-hasis
Atra-Hasis
The 18th century BCE Akkadian epic of Atra-Hasis is named after its protagonist. An "Atra-Hasis" appears on one of the Sumerian king lists as king of Shuruppak in the times before the flood. The Atra-Hasis tablets include both a creation myth and a flood account, which is one of three surviving...

, Exceedingly wise' hero of Akkadian myth, survived the great flood.
Aya  68.3°N 322.2°W 38.0 1979 Aya
Aya (goddess)
Aya in Akkadian mythology was a mother goddess, consort of the sun god Shamash. She developed from the Sumerian goddess Šherida, consort of Utu.- History :...

, Assyro-Babylonian; wife of Shamash.
Ba'al  24.9°N 329.9°W 43.2 1979 Ba'al, Phoenician; Canaanite god.
Bau  23.0°N 48.7°W 80.2 1988 Bau, Goddess who breathed into men the breath of life; daughter of Anu and patroness of Lagash.
Bes  25.5°S 180.9°W 61.0 1985 Bes
Bes
Bes was an Egyptian deity worshipped in the later periods of dynastic history as a protector of households and in particular mothers and children. In time he would be regarded as the defender of everything good and the enemy of all that is bad...

, Egyptian god of marriage.
Chrysor  15.3°N 134.3°W 6.9 1997 Chrysor, Phoenician god; inventor of bait, fishing hooks and line, first to sail.
Cisti  31.7°S 64.2°W 69.6 1997 Cisti
CISTI
The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information began in 1924 as the library of the National Research Council of Canada , the leading agency for research and development in Canada. This library took on the role of national science library unofficially in 1957 and became the official...

, Iranian healing god.
Damkina  30.0°S 5.0°W 180.0 2006 Damkina, Babylonian sky and health deity, queen of the gods, and mother of Marduk in some accounts.
Danel  4.3°S 21.3°W 55.2 1979 Danel
Danel
Danel was a culture hero who appears in an incomplete Ugaritic text of the fourteenth century BCE at Ugarit , Syria, where the name is rendered DN'IL, "El is judge".- Danel :...

, Phoenician; mythical hero versed in art of divination.
Dendera  1.2°S 255.4°W 82.2 2000 Dendera
Dendera
Dendera is a small town in Egypt situated on the west bank of the Nile, about 5 km south of Qena, on the opposite side of the river.-History:...

, Town where Hathor was chief goddess. (Name changed from Dendera Facula.)
Diment  23.1°N 351.8°W 40.4 1979 Diment, Egyptian goddess of the dwelling place of the dead.
Ea  17.7°N 148.7°W 19.1 1997 Ea, Assyro-Babylonian god of water, wisdom, and the earth.
El
El (crater)
El is a crater on Ganymede. It has a small "pit" in its center. Craters with such a "central pit" are common across Ganymede and are especially intriguing since they may reveal secrets about the structure of the satellite's shallow subsurface....

 
1.0°N 151.4°W 54.3 1997 El
El (god)
is a Northwest Semitic word meaning "deity", cognate to Akkadian and then to Hebrew : Eli and Arabic )....

, "Father of Men", existed before the birth of gods.
Enkidu  11.6°N 168.4°W 5.0 1997 Enkidu
Enkidu
Enkidu is a central figure in the Ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. Enkidu was first created by Anu, the sky god, to rid Gilgamesh of his arrogance. In the story he is a wild-man raised by animals and ignorant of human society until he is bedded by Shamhat...

, Friend of Gilgamesh.
Enlil  26.6°S 325.2°W 121.1 1982 Enlil
Enlil
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.-Early life:Members...

, Assyro-Babylonian; nature god of the air, hurricanes, and nature.
En-zu  55.3°N 312.2°W 34.4 1979 Enzu, Babylonian moon god.
Epigeus  23.4°N 180.6°W 343.0 1997 Epigeus, Phoenician god.
Erichthonius  15.3°S 175.3°W 30.5 1997 Erichthonius
Erichthonius of Dardania
The mythical King Erichthonius of Dardania was the son of Dardanus or Darda, King of Dardania, and Batea,...

, Possible father of Ganymede.
Eshmun  17.4°S 192.1°W 96.5 1979 Eshmun
Eshmun
Eshmun was a Phoenician god of healing and the tutelary god of Sidon.This god was known at least from the Iron Age period at Sidon and was worshipped also in Tyre, Beirut, Cyprus, Sardinia, and in Carthage where the site of Eshmun's temple is now occupied by the chapel of Saint Louis.According to...

, Phoenician; divinity of Sidon.
Etana  74.7°N 340.5°W 44.5 1979 Etana
Etana
Etana was an ancient, legendary Sumerian king of the city of Kish, and was, according to the Sumerian king list, one of the kings who reigned after the deluge. He is listed as the successor of Arwium, the son of Mashda, as king of Kish...

, Assyro-Babylonian; asked the eagle for an herb to give him an heir.
Gad  13.6°S 137.6°W 72.1 1985 Gad
Gad (deity)
Gad was the name of the pan-Semitic god of fortune, and is attested in ancient records of Aram and Arabia. Gad is also mentioned by the Book of Isaiah , as having been worshipped by a number of Hebrews during the babylonian captivity. Gad apparently differed from the god of destiny, who was known...

, Semitic god of fate or good fortune.
Geb  56.3°N 182.6°W 60.0 1985 Geb
Geb
Geb was the Egyptian god of the Earth and a member of the Ennead of Heliopolis. It was believed in ancient Egypt that Geb's laughter was earthquakes and that he allowed crops to grow. The name was pronounced as such from the Greek period onward,...

, Heliopolis Earth god.
Geinos  18.6°N 219.4°W 58.0 1985 Geinos, Tyre; god of brick making.
Gilgamesh  62.8°S 125.0°W 153.0 1979 Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh was the fifth king of Uruk, modern day Iraq , placing his reign ca. 2500 BC. According to the Sumerian king list he reigned for 126 years. In the Tummal Inscription, Gilgamesh, and his son Urlugal, rebuilt the sanctuary of the goddess Ninlil, in Tummal, a sacred quarter in her city of...

, Assyro-Babylonian; sought immortality after Enkidu died.
Gir  34.0°N 145.7°W 73.2 1985 Gir, Sumerian god of summer heat.
Gula
Gula (crater)
Gula is a crater on Ganymede. It is a fresh crater with a distinctive central peak....

 
64.1°N 12.3°W 38.0 1979 Gula
Gula
Nintinugga was a Babylonian goddess of healing, the consort of Ninurta. She is identical with another goddess, known as Bau, though it would seem that the two were originally independent....

, Assyro-Babylonian; health god.
Halieus  34.3°N 167.1°W 91.6 1985 Halieus, Tyre; fisherman god.
Hapi  30.6°S 212.6°W 98.5 1988 Hapi
Hapy
Hapi, sometimes transliterated as Hapy, not to be confused with another god of the same name, was a deification of the annual flooding of the Nile River in Ancient Egyptian religion, which deposited rich silt on its banks, allowing the Egyptians to grow crops. His name means Running One, probably...

, Egyptian god of the Nile.
Harakhtes  35.9°N 100.2°W 108.0 2000 Harakhtes, "Horus of the Two Horizons", form of Egyptian god Horus who represents the path of the sun.
Haroeris  28.5°N 296.8°W 70.0 2000 Haroeris, Egyptian sky god whose eyes are the sun and the moon, a form of Horus.
Hathor  66.9°S 268.6°W 173.0 1979 Hathor
Hathor
Hathor , is an Ancient Egyptian goddess who personified the principles of love, beauty, music, motherhood and joy. She was one of the most important and popular deities throughout the history of Ancient Egypt...

, Egyptian goddess of joy and love.
Hay-tau  14.5°N 133.1°W 26.9 1997 Hay-tau, Nega god, spirit of forest vegetation.
Hedetet  33.0°S 251.1°W 102.3 2000 Hedetet
Hedetet
Hededet or Hedjedjet is a scorpion goddess of the ancient Egyptian religion. She resembles Serket in many ways, but was in later periods merged into Isis. She was depicted with the head of a scorpion, nursing a baby. She is mentioned in the Book of the Dead....

, Egyptian scorpion goddess.
Hershef  47.3°N 269.5°W 117.9 2000 Hershef, Egyptian ram-headed god.
Humbaba  55.2°S 67.3°W 35.0 2000 Humbaba
Humbaba
In Akkadian mythology Humbaba or Huwawa , also Humbaba the Terrible was a monstrous giant of immemorial age raised by Utu, the Sun...

, Babylonian terrifying guardian of the cedar forests.
Ilah  21.9°N 160.6°W 79.6 1985 Ilah, First Sumerian sky god.
Ilus  13.4°S 110.3°W 90.0 1985 Ilus
Ilus
Ilus is the name of several mythological persons associated directly or indirectly with Troy.-Ilus :Homer's Iliad mentions at several points the tomb of Ilus son of Dardanus in the middle of the Trojan plain...

, Ganymede's brother.
Irkalla  32.6°S 114.7°W 116.2 1985 Irkalla
Ereshkigal
In Mesopotamian mythology, Ereshkigal was the goddess of Irkalla, the land of the dead or underworld. Sometimes her name is given as Irkalla, similar to the way the name Hades was used in Greek mythology for both the underworld and its ruler.Ereshkigal was the only one who could pass judgment and...

, Sumerian goddess of underworld, seen by Enkidu in a dream.
Ishkur  0.3°N 8.4°W 67.6 1985 Ishkur, Sumerian god of rain.
Isimu  8.4°N 2°W 89.5 1985 Isimu, Sumerian god of vegetation.
Isis  67.3°S 201.1°W 75.3 1979 Isis
Isis
Isis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...

, Egyptian goddess; wife of Osiris.
Kadi  47.7°N 178.5°W 86.7 1985 Kadi, Babylonian goddess of justice.
Keret  16.0°N 35.2°W 36.0 1979 Keret, Phoenician hero. Name dropped because feature not found on imagery.
Khensu
Khensu (crater)
Khensu crater is a crater on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. It is a dark-floored crater with a bright ejecta blanket located in the Uruk Sulcus region. The dark component may be residual material from the impactor that formed the crater. Another possibility is that the impactor may have punched through...

 
1.0°N 152.9°W 14.2 1997 Khensu, Egyptian moon god.
Khepri  20.4°N 147.6°W 47.1 1997 Khepri
Khepri
This article is about the Egyptian god. For the type of robot, see Khepera mobile robot.In Egyptian mythology, Khepri is the name of a major god. Khepri is associated with the dung beetle , whose behavior of maintaining spherical balls of dung represents the forces which move the sun...

, God of transformations for the Heliopitans.
Khnum  17.8°S 85.2°W 45.0 Khnum, Egyptian ram-headed creation god. Note: Provisional name Khnum changed to Nah-Hunte because of duplication with Khnum Catena.
Khonsu  37.5°S 190.8°W 80.0 1988 Khonsu, Egyptian moon god.
Khumbam  24.1°S 335.4°W 56.9 1979 Khumbam, Assyro-Babylonian; Elamite creator god.
Kingu  34.8°S 227.1°W 78.0 1988 Kingu
Kingu
Kingu, also spelled Qingu, meaning "unskilled laborer," was a god in Babylonian mythology, and — after the murder of his father Apsu — the consort of the goddess Tiamat, his mother, who wanted to establish him as ruler and leader of all gods before she was slain by Marduk. Tiamat gave Kingu the 3...

, Assyro-Babylonian; conquered leader of Tiamat's forces whose blood was used to create man.
Kishar  72.6°N 349.7°W 79.0 1979 Kishar
Kishar
In the Akkadian epic Enuma Elish, Kishar is the daughter of Lahmu and Lahamu, the first children of Tiamat and Apsu. She is the female principle, sister and wife of Anshar, the male principle, and the mother of Anu...

, Assyro-Babylonian; terrestrial progenitor goddess.
Kittu
Kittu (crater)
Kittu crater is a crater on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. It is approximately in diameter.The crater shows a bright white central peak and rim, and dark brownish material surrounding it. Diffuse dark rays, sprinkled thinly atop surrounding grooved terrain, emanate from the impact site...

 
0.4°N 334.6°W 15.0 1985 Kittu, Assyro-Babylonian god of justice.
Kulla  33.3°N 113.8°W 92.4 1985 Kulla, Sumerian god of brick making.
Lagamal  64.4°N 244.8°W 131.0 2000 Lagamal, Son of Babylonian god Ea.
Latpon  58.8°N 171.2°W 42.0 1997 Latpon, One of the sons of El.
Lugalmeslam  23.8°N 193.8°W 65.1 1997 Lugalmeslam, Sumerian god of the underworld.
Lumha  36.0°N 154.3°W 57.8 1985 Lumha, Title of Enki as patron of singers; also Babylonian priest.
Maa  1.3°N 203.6°W 31.7 1997 Maa
Maa
- Film :Maa is a word meaning Mother in Bengali,Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu. It also means Earth in Finnish and Estonian. It can refer to several things such as* Maa - Most popular tv serial in India, is aired on Star Jalsha...

, Egyptian god of the sense of sight.
Mehit  29.0°N 164.4°W 47.2 1985 Mehit, Egyptian lion-headed goddess; Anhur's wife.
Melkart  9.9°S 186.2°W 105.0 1979 Melkart, Phoenician; divinity of Tyre.
Menhit  36.5°S 140.5°W 140.0 2006 Menhit
Menhit
In Egyptian mythology, Menhit was originally a foreign war goddess. Her name depicts a warrior status, as it means massacres.When included among the Egyptian deities, she became the female counterpart of Anhur...

, Egyptian lion and war goddess.
Min  29.2°N 1.2°W 33.1 1988 Min
Min (god)
Min is an Ancient Egyptian god whose cult originated in predynastic times . He was represented in many different forms, but was often represented in male human form, shown with an erect penis which he holds in his left hand and an upheld right arm holding a flail...

, Egyptian fertility god.
Mir  3.3°S 230.3°W 8.0 1985 Mir, West Semitic god of wind.
Misharu  4.4°S 335.9°W 88.0 1985 Misharu, Assyro-Babylonian god of law.
Mont  44.6°N 311.9°W 15.0 1997 Mont
Menthu
In Ancient Egyptian religion, Monthu was a falcon-god of war. Monthu's name, shown in Egyptian hieroglyphs to the right, is technically transcribed as mntw...

, Theban war god.
Mor  30.5°N 327.4°W 41.3 1979 Mor, Phoenician; spirit of the harvest.
Mot  9.9°N 165.9°W 23.3 1997 Mot
Mot
In Ugaritic Mot 'Death' is personified as a god of death. The word is cognate with forms meaning 'death' in other Semitic and Afro-Asiatic languages: with Arabic موت mawt; with Hebrew מות ; with Maltese mewt; with Syriac mautā; with Ge'ez mot; with Canaanite, Egyptian Aramaic, Nabataean, and...

, Spirit of the harvest, one of the sons of El.
Mush  15.1°S 114.8°W 99.3 1985 Mush, Sumerian male deity; upper parts are human, lower parts a serpent.
Nabu  45.4°S 1.2°W 40.0 1979 Nabu
Nabu
Nabu is the Assyrian and Babylonian god of wisdom and writing, worshipped by Babylonians as the son of Marduk and his consort, Sarpanitum, and as the grandson of Ea. Nabu's consort was Tashmetum....

, Sumerian god of intellectual activity.
Nah-Hunte  17.8°S 85.2°W 49.4 2000 Nah-Hunte, Elamite god of light and justice.
Namtar  58.3°S 340.8°W 49.2 1979 Namtar
Namtar
In Mesopotamian mythology Namtar was a hellish deity, god of death, and the messenger of An, Ereshkigal, and Nergal.Namtar was the son of Enlil and Erishkigal and was considered responsible for diseases and pests...

, Assyro-Babylonian plague demon.
Nanna  17.6°S 241.9°W 56.0 1985 Nanna
Sin (mythology)
Sin or Nanna was the god of the moon in Mesopotamian mythology. Nanna is a Sumerian deity, the son of Enlil and Ninlil, and became identified with Semitic Sin. The two chief seats of Nanna's/Sin's worship were Ur in the south of Mesopotamia and Harran in the north.- Name :The original meaning of...

, Sumerian moon god; god of wisdom.
Nefertum  44.3°N 321.1°W 28.7 1997 Nefertum, Original divine son of the Memphis triad, son of Ptah.
Neheh  72.1°N 62.5°W 54.0 1985 Neheh, Egyptian god of eternity.
Neith
Neith (crater)
Neith crater is a crater on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system.Impact features like Neith have been called "penepalimpsests" by some investigators or "dome craters" by others and are considered to be transitional between craters and palimpsests. Palimpsests are bright,...

 
29.4°N 7.0°W 87.6 1988 Neith
Neith
In Egyptian mythology, Neith was an early goddess in the Egyptian pantheon. She was the patron deity of Sais, where her cult was centered in the Western Nile Delta of Egypt and attested as early as the First Dynasty...

, Egyptian warrior goddess; goddess of domestic arts.
Nergal
Nergal (crater)
Nergal crater is a crater on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. It has a distinctive ejecta blanket surrounding it that's darker nearer the craters and brighter further away. The inner region of the ejecta is characterized by a lobate appearance indicative of the flow of a liquid substance over the surface...

 
38.6°N 200.3°W 9.6 1997 Nergal
Nergal
The name Nergal, Nirgal, or Nirgali refers to a deity in Babylon with the main seat of his cult at Cuthah represented by the mound of Tell-Ibrahim. Nergal is mentioned in the Hebrew bible as the deity of the city of Cuth : "And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal"...

, Assyro-Babylonian king of the underworld.
Nidaba  17.7°N 123.2°W 199.4 1985 Nidaba
Nidaba
Nanibgal , also Nisaba or Nidaba was the Sumerian goddess of writing, learning, and the harvest. Her sanctuaries were E-zagin at Eresh and at Umma. On a depiction found in Lagash, she appears with flowing hair, crowned with horned tiara bearing supporting ears of corn and a crescent moon...

, Sumerian grain goddess.
Nigirsu  58.2°S 320.5°W 53.3 1979 Nigirsu, Assyro-Babylonian; god of the fields, war god.
Ningishzida  14.1°N 189.8°W 32.0 1997 Ningishzida
Ningishzida
Ningishzida is a Mesopotamian deity of the underworld. His name in Sumerian is translated as "lord of the good tree" by Thorkild Jacobsen....

, Sumerian vegetation god.
Ninkasi  59.2°N 48.7°W 81.0 1988 Ninkasi
Ninkasi
Ninkasi is the ancient Sumerian matron goddess of the intoxicating beverage, beer.Her father was Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and her mother was Ninti, the queen of the Abzu. She is also one of the eight children created in order to heal one of the eight wounds that Enki receives. Furthermore, she is...

, Sumerian goddess of brewing.
Ninki  8.2°S 120.5°W 194.2 1985 Ninki, Consort to Ea, Babylonian god of water.
Ninlil  6.2°N 118.3°W 90.8 1985 Ninlil
Ninlil
In Sumerian religion, Ninlil , also called Sud, in Assyrian called Mullitu, is the consort goddess of Enlil. Her parentage is variously described. Most commonly she is called the daughter of Haia and Nunbarsegunu...

, Chief Assyrian goddess; Asshur's consort.
Ninsum  14.5°S 140.6°W 88.2 1985 Ninsum, Minor Babylonian goddess of wisdom; Gilgamesh's mother.
Nut  54.3°S 269.3°W 93.0 1979 Nut
Nut (goddess)
In the Ennead of Egyptian mythology, Nut was the goddess of the sky.-Goddess of the sky:...

, Egyptian goddess of the sky.
Osiris  38.1°S 166.4°W 107.7 1979 Osiris
Osiris
Osiris is an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He is classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and...

, Egyptian god of the dead.
Ptah  65.9°S 217.0°W 30.2 1988 Ptah
Ptah
In Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ptah was the deification of the primordial mound in the Ennead cosmogony, which was more literally referred to as Ta-tenen , meaning risen land, or as Tanen, meaning submerged land, though Tatenen was a god in his...

, Sovereign god of Memphis; patron of artisans.
Punt  24.9°S 239.9°W 135.0 1997 Punt
Land of Punt
The Land of Punt, also called Pwenet, or Pwene by the ancient Egyptians, was a trading partner known for producing and exporting gold, aromatic resins, African blackwood, ebony, ivory, slaves and wild animals...

, Land east of Egypt where Bes originated. Changed from Punt Facula.
Ruti  13.2°N 308.6°W 16.0 1979 Ruti
Rüti
Rüti, which comes from the Old High German word riod, meaning clearing is a popular name for towns in the German speaking part of Switzerland...

, Phoenician; Byblos god.
Saltu  14.2°S 352.7°W 40.0 2006 Saltu, Babylonian goddess of discord and hostility.
Sapas  57.4°N 33.9°W 56.0 1979 Shapash, Assyro-Babylonian; torch of the gods.
Sati  30.9°N 12.8°W 94.7 1988 Sati
Satis
In Egyptian mythology, Satis was the deification of the floods of the Nile River, and her cult originated in the ancient city of Swenet, now called Aswan on the southern edge of Egypt. Her name means she who shoots forth referring to the annual flooding of the river...

, Wife of Khnum, Egyptian god of the Cataracts.
Sebek  61.2°N 356.9°W 65.0 1979 Sebek, Egyptian crocodile god.
Seima  17.1°N 215.9°W 38.0 1985 Seima, Mother goddess of the Arameans.
Seker  39.2°S 345.5°W 103.4 1988 Seker
Seker
Seker or Sokar is a falcon god of the Memphite necropolis. Although the meaning of his name remains uncertain the Egyptians themselves in the Pyramid Texts linked his name to the anguished cry of Osiris to Isis 'Sy-k-ri' , in the underworld. Seker is strongly linked with two other gods, Ptah the...

, Egyptian god of the dead at Memphis.
Selket  15.0°N 105.8°W 172.3 1985 Selket, Tutelary goddess who guarded intestines of the dead.
Serapis  12.5°S 44.1°W 169.3 1997 Serapis
Serapis
Serapis or Sarapis is a Graeco-Egyptian name of God. Serapis was devised during the 3rd century BC on the orders of Ptolemy I of Egypt as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in his realm. The god was depicted as Greek in appearance, but with Egyptian trappings, and combined iconography...

, Egyptian healing god.
Shu  43.2°N 356.8°W 44.1 1988 Shu
Shu (Egyptian deity)
In Egyptian mythology, Shu is one of the primordial gods, a personification of air, one of the Ennead of Heliopolis. He was created by Atum, his father and Iusaaset, his mother in the city of Heliopolis. With his sister, Tefnut , he was the father of Nut and Geb...

, Egyptian god of air.
Sin  52.9°N 357.5°W 19.0 1979 Sin
Sin (mythology)
Sin or Nanna was the god of the moon in Mesopotamian mythology. Nanna is a Sumerian deity, the son of Enlil and Ninlil, and became identified with Semitic Sin. The two chief seats of Nanna's/Sin's worship were Ur in the south of Mesopotamia and Harran in the north.- Name :The original meaning of...

, Babylonian moon god.
Tammuz  13.4°N 230.6°W 51.0 1985 Tammuz, Egyptian childbirth goddess.
Tanit  57.5°N 36.6°W 26.0 1979 Tanit
Tanit
Tanit was a Phoenician lunar goddess, worshipped as the patron goddess at Carthage. Tanit was worshiped in Punic contexts in the Western Mediterranean, from Malta to Gades into Hellenistic times. From the fifth century BCE onwards Tanit is associated with that of Baal Hammon...

, Akkadian youthful god of vegetation; Ishtar's son.
Tashmetum  39.7°S 264.5°W 135.0 2000 Tashmetum
Tashmetum
Tashmetum is an Akkadian goddess, the consort of the god Nabu....

, Assyro-Babylonian; Carthaginian goddess.
Ta-urt  27.6°N 304.1°W 94.4 1988 Taurt, Assyro-Babylonian goddess who invented writing with her husband Nabu.
Teshub  68.5°S 279.6°W 188.0 1994 Teshub
Teshub
Teshub was the Hurrian god of sky and storm. He was derived from the Hattian Taru. His Hittite and Luwian name was Tarhun , although this name is from the Hittite root *tarh- to defeat, conquer.- Depiction and myths :He is depicted holding a triple...

, Elamite god of the tempest.
Thoth  43.3°S 147.2°W 102.5 1985 Thoth
Thoth
Thoth was considered one of the more important deities of the Egyptian pantheon. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was Seshat...

, Egyptian moon god; invented all arts and sciences.
Tros  11.1°N 27.3°W 93.9 1979 Tros
Tros
In Greek mythology, Tros was a ruler of Troy and the son of Erichthonius by Astyoche or of Ilus I, from whom he inherited the throne. Tros was the father of three sons: Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymedes. He is the eponym of Troy, also named Ilion for his son Ilus...

, Greek; father of Ganymede.
Upuant  46.4°N 319.5°W 16.5 1997 Upuant, Jackal-headed warrior god, god of the dead.
Wadjet  53.8°S 268.9°W 100.0 2000 Wadjet
Wadjet
In Egyptian mythology, Wadjet, or the Green One , was originally the ancient local goddess of the city of Dep , which became part of the city that the Egyptians named Per-Wadjet, House of...

, Egyptian cobra goddess. Same crater as Nut.
We-ila  12.4°S 290.3°W 36.3 2000 We-ila, Akkadian god from whom the hero Atra-hasis was created.
Wepwawet  69.9°S 59.8°W 87.0 2000 Wepwawet
Wepwawet
In late Egyptian mythology, Wepwawet was originally a war deity, whose cult centre was Asyut in Upper Egypt . His name means, opener of the ways...

, Ancient Egyptian jackal deity.
Zakar  31.2°N 333.7°W 170.0 1997 Zakar, Assyrian supreme deity.
Zaqar  58.2°N 37.3°W 33.0 1979 Zaqar
Zaqar
In Mesopotamian mythology, Zaqar or Dzakar is the messenger of the god Sin. He relays these messages to mortals through his power over their dreams and nightmares....

, Assyro-Babylonian; Sin's messenger who brought dreams to men.

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