Akkadian Atrahasis (" extremely wise ") and Utnapishtim (" he found life "), as well as biblical Noah (" rest ") are similar heroes of flood legends of the ancient Near East.

In its most complete surviving version, the Atrahasis epic is written on three tablets in Akkadian, the language of ancient Babylon.

Amulet ( 800 BC – 612 BC ) to ward off plague inscribed with a quotation from the Akkadian Erra Epic

One of the most famous of these was the Epic of Gilgamesh, which first appears in Akkadian during the Old Babylonian period as a circa 1, 000 line epic known by its incipit, šūtur eli šarrī, ‘‘ Surpassing all other kings ,’’ which incorporated some of the stories from the five earlier Sumerian Gilgamesh tales.

The sources of the Khidir-story go back to mythological motifs appearing in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, in the Alexander romance and in Jewish legends centered around the mythical figure of Elijah.

In the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh and in earlier Sumerian stories about the hero, the king of Uruk, Gilgamesh, calls himself the son of Lugalbanda and Ninsun.

Lugalbanda is also named as the father of Gilgamesh, a later king of Uruk, in both Sumerian and Akkadian versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Many other journal articles concerned illuminating studies of Akkadian literature, including the Gilgamesh Epic.

Babylonian scribes concentrated their schooling on learning how to write both Akkadian and Sumerian, in cuneiform, for the purposes of accountancy and contract dealings, in addition to interpersonal discourse and mathematical documentations.

In another legend, Ninurta battles a birdlike monster called Imdugud ( Akkadian: Anzû ); a Babylonian version relates how the monster Anzû steals the Tablets of Destiny from Enlil.

Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning " the son of Enlil ", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.

Lachmo was the Akkadian god of fertility.

By his wife Ninlil or Sud, Enlil was father of the moon god Nanna / Suen ( in Akkadian, Sin ) and of Ninurta ( also called Ningirsu ).

Enki () or Enkil ( Sumerian: ) is a god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.

Considered the master shaper of the world, god of wisdom and of all magic, Enki was characterized as the lord of the Abzu ( Apsu in Akkadian ), the freshwater sea or groundwater located within the earth.

For example, the Akkadian sign AN () could be an ideograph for " deity ", an ideogram for the god Anum in particular, a logograph for the Akkadian stem il-" deity ", a logograph for the Akkadian word šamu " sky ", or a syllabogram for either the syllable an or il.

The Greek form of the name Babylon is from the native Akkadian Bāb-ilim, which means " Gate of the god ", which summarizes the religious purpose of the great temple towers ( the ziggurats ) of ancient Sumer ( Biblical Shinar ).

The city's patron deity was Nanna ( in Akkadian Sin ), the Sumerian and Akkadian ( Assyrian-Babylonian ) moon god, and the name of the city is in origin derived from the god's name, being the classical Sumerian spelling of LAK-32. UNUG < sup > KI </ sup >, literally " the abode ( UNUG ) of Nanna ( LAK-32 )".

The Akkadian name, Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, means " O god Nabu, preserve / defend my firstborn son ".

This Tower of Jupiter Belus is believed to refer to the Akkadian god Bel, whose name has been Hellenised by Herodotus to Zeus Belus.

In Babylonia, the month Tammuz was established in honor of the eponymous god Tammuz, who originated as a Sumerian shepherd-god, Dumuzid or Dumuzi, the consort of Inanna and, in his Akkadian form, the parallel consort of Ishtar.

Nergal-sharezer or Neriglissar ( in Akkadian Nergal-šar-uṣur, " Oh god Nergal, preserve / defend the king ") was King of Babylon from 560 to 556 BC.

Similarly the Sumerian moon god Nanna became the Akkadian Sîn whilst the Sumerian sun god Utu became the Akkadian Shamash.

The Akkadian god Adad is cognate in name and functions with northwest Semitic god Hadad.

The fire god Gibil ( named Gerra in Akkadian ) is sometimes the son of Ishkur and Shala.

Sippar was the cult site of the sun god ( Sumerian Utu, Akkadian Shamash ) and the home of his temple E-babbara.

Marduk ( Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR. UTU " solar calf "; perhaps from MERI. DUG ; Biblical Hebrew Merodach ; Greek, Mardochaios ) was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi ( 18th century BCE ), started to slowly rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BCE.

* Enki ( / ˈɛŋki /) or Enkil ( Sumerian: dEN. KI ( G ) ) is a god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.

She first appears as a consort of Enlil in Sumerian mythology, and later becomes the Akkadian Damkina, consort of Enki / Ea and mother of the god Marduk.

In Akkadian, Adad is also known as Ramman (" Thunderer ") cognate with Aramaic Rimmon which was a byname of the Aramaic Hadad.

The cognate Akkadian god Adad is also often called the son of Anu (" Sky ").

As a byname we find Aramaic rmn, Old South Arabic rmn, Hebrew rmwn, Akkadian Rammānu (" Thunderer "), presumably originally vocalized as Ramān in Aramaic and Hebrew.

Eberhard Schrader had previously put forward the Akkadian ( Old Assyrian dialect ) ablu (" son ") as a more likely etymology.

The name may be a corruption of Hebrew Shene neharot (" two rivers "), Hebrew Shene arim (" two cities "), or Akkadian Sumeru ( from the Sumerians ' name for Sumer, which meant perhaps " land of the civilized lords " or " native land ").

In Akkadian mythology Rabisu (" the vagabond ") or possibly Rabasa is an evil vampiric spirit or demon that is always menacing the entrance to the houses and hiding in dark corners, lurking to attack people.

Enheduanna ( Akkadian: ; 2285-2250 BCE ), also transliterated as Enheduana, En-hedu-ana or EnHeduAnna (" en " means High Priestess, and " hedu " means adornment, so this name translates to " high priestess adornment of the god, An "), was an Akkadian princess as well as High Priestess of the Moon god Nanna ( Sin ) in the Sumerian city-state of Ur.

She is found as Ugaritic ʻṯtrt (" ʻAṯtart " or " ʻAthtart "); Phoenician " ʻštrt " ( ʻAshtart ); and Hebrew עשתרת ( Ashtoret, singular, or Ashtarot, plural ), and appears in Akkadian as < sup > D </ sup >, the grammatically masculine name of the goddess Ishtar ; the form Astartu is used to describe her age.

Ashima was a West Semitic goddess of fate related to the Akkadian goddess Shimti (" fate "), who was a goddess in her own right but also a title of other goddesses such as Damkina and Ishtar.

Atra-Hasis (" exceedingly wise ") is the protagonist and namesake of an 18th century BCE Akkadian epic.

Another theory is that Shaddai is a derivation of a Semitic stem that appears in the Akkadian shadû (" mountain ") and shaddā ` û or shaddû ` a (" mountain-dweller "), one of the names of Amurru.

W. F. Albright, for example, says that El Shaddai is a derivation of a Semitic stem that appears in the Akkadian shadû (" mountain ") and shaddā ` û or shaddû ` a (" mountain-dweller "), one of the names of Amurru.