2a - Nannar statue 2,000 B.C.2bc - Nanna & his symbol

. Nannar = Sumerian

. Nanna = Akkadian, Sumerian short for Nannarbright oneaffectionately calledFather Nanna

. Sin = Akkadian

. SU.EN = Akkadian “Multiplying Lord” due to his twins Inanna & Utu

. Acimbabbar = Sumer

. El = Canaanites (retired god married to Asherah**),** Biblical name for Yaweh during time of Abraham

.lofty deity—Ab Adam-father of man, the Kindly, the Merciful,creator of things created”

. Ares = Greek

. Mars = Roman

. 1st son born to Enlil & Ninlil

. older brother to Ishkur / Adad

. younger ½ brother to Enlil’s heir, Ninurta

. married to Ningal– “great lady”, daughter to Enki & Ningikuga

. Nannar’s ruling # is 30, Ningal’s # is 25

. Nannar is the Moon God, the Moon Crescent was his symbol until falling ill, then it was given to son Utu

. Monday named after Moon Day, for Moon Crescent God Nannar

. “Nanna, your crescent moon is called “the crescent moon of the seventh day (?)”.

. Nannar was given sovereignty over the great city-state of Ur, (of Biblical hero Abraham fame)

. Harran was built as a copy of Ur, & designated a city of Nannar, the Moon God

. Ehulhul, the temple of Sin in Harran

. Egishnugal (“House of the seed of the throne”) ziggurat temple residence of Nannar in Ur

. E-kiš-nu-ĝal (“House sending light to the earth”) in Ur

. E-ab-lua (“House with teeming cattle”), Nannar possessed over one million cattle in large pens in Urim / Ur

. Kar-zida (“Pure quay”) in Gaeš, small shining city of Suen

. E-dim-an-na (“Temple of the bond of heaven”), built by Nebuchadnezzar for Sin

. E-hursang (“House which is a hill”), construction of Shulgi in Ur

. E-mud-kura in Ur

. E-temen-ni-guru, main ziggurat of Ur

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According to Sitchin Books:

Part of the Sinai peninsula was called by the Old Testament the (“Wilderness of Sin”), Mount Sinai is named in Arabic, (“Nakhl”) after the goddess Ningal**,** the spouse to Sin****.

Jericho / Yeriho in the Semitic / Biblical word, means (“City of the Moon God”), Allah in Arabic, is adopted from El .

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Sons:

. Utu / Shamash, Sun God

. Papsukal

Daughters:

. Inanna / Ishtar, Goddess of Love & War

. Ereshkigal, Queen of the Under World / Netherworld / Hades