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Various new religious movements in the 20th and 21st centuries have been founded that venerate some of the deities found in ancient Mesopotamian religion.

In particular, various strains of Neopaganism have been formed that have adopted the worship of the historical Mesopotamian gods.

Another modern religion to have adopted elements from the beliefs of ancient Mesopotamia is Anuism, devoted to the god Anu, who supposedly revealed himself as being the Supreme Being to a man named V. E. M, who before then had known nothing of ancient Mesopotamia.

Unlike Neopagan groups, Anuism was wholly monotheistic, treating Anu as the one and only God.

The group ceased to exist in 2005-2006 ( according to V. E. M .).

These religions are mainly based in the west, the United States and Europe, the surviving remnants of the actual Mesopotamians have shown no interest in these practices, preferring to follow various ancient Eastern Rite Christian denominations.

The name for the neopagan movement of the ancient Mesopotamian religion is known as Kaldanism.