The Melammu Project

The Heritage of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East

Bel’s creation of heavenly bodies (1)

Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Seven planetary gods 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.04 Concept of god (1) 01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism) 01.04.03.06 Seven planetary gods	Keywords Berossus creation of the universe
Period 3rd century BCE Hellenistic Empires	Channel Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F1:
Bel also created the stars and the sun and the moon and the five planets.

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F1

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Amar Annus

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