r/Mesopotamia

Before the pharaohs raised their monuments, before the first king wore a crown, before a single city rose from the mud of Mesopotamia, something else already ruled. Not the mild, forgiving deities that came later. These were older, harsher, absolute. They weighed the fate of every soul, tore the sky away from the earth with their own hands, and shaped humanity out of need rather than tenderness. Their rule stretched across millennia before anyone had conceived of a human throne.

I put together the full lineage, starting from creation's first spark and following it through every god whose name still surfaces in later myth, the primal forces at the root, the seven who governed destiny itself, the god who rose to rule Babylon, and the countless figures who guided ordinary life for three thousand years.

The whole thing is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLnVGPz0qf4

Curious how this holds up against what people here already know about the Mesopotamian pantheon, especially anyone who's dug into the Enuma Elish or the Atrahasis directly.

Just got these from an estate sale. My initial research (Dr. ChatGPT) suggests that the painted artifact may be the oldest. Thoughts in general?