Alala
Alala is a primordial deity belonging to the family tree of Anu. A prayer to Shamash and the “gods of the night” invokes Enki and Ninki alongside Alala and Belili, a pair of primordial deities belonging to the family tree of Anu.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- A prayer to Shamash and the “gods of the night” invokes Enki and Ninki alongside Alala and Belili, a pair of primordial deities belonging to the family tree of Anu.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ninki, Enul, Ninul, Keres, Androktasiai, Makhai, Hysminai, Phonoi, Spartoi, Belili, Ninlil, Enmesharra, Lugaldukuga, Qingu, Ubnu, Namzitara, Kubabat, Enki, Enlil
- consort of
- Belili
- serves
- Ares
- parent of
- Anu
- child of
- Polemos
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Gonzalo Rubio additionally states that Kubaba's name has no clear Sumerian etymology either, and due to this theonym's structure compares it to names such as Alala, Aruru, Belili or Zababa.”
#9804 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“A prayer to Shamash and the “gods of the night” invokes Enki and Ninki alongside Alala and Belili, a pair of primordial deities belonging to the family tree of Anu.”
#14824 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Alala (Ancient Greek: Ἀλαλά (alalá); "battle-cry" or "war-cry") was the personification of the war cry in Greek mythology. According to Pindar, Alala was the daughter of Polemos, the personification of war”
#27544 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The origin of the name Alala is not known, and in scholarship it is tentatively grouped with other Mesopotamian deity names with no clear Sumerian or Semitic etymologies, such as Zababa, Aruru or Bunene.”
#38732 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Ancient commentaries at times equate Enmesharra with other, usually cosmogonic, figures: Lugaldukuga, Anu, Qingu, Alala and otherwise largely unknown Ubnu.”
#38893 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001