The Sumerian religion describes the mythology, the mausoleum, the cosmology and the cults of the Sumerian culture. The Sumerian religion transcended throughout Mesopotamian paganism, subsisting in the ways of the mythologies and religions of the Babylonians, Akkadians, Assyrians and among other cultural groups. In this way, the Sumerian, Babylonians, and Akkadian deities were equal, unlike the superior of these later who was Marduk. It is very difficult to know how the Sumerians managed to develop their religious ideas, which, on the other hand, would leave so much of a trace in later religions.
The Sumerian religion displays serious identity difficulties, due to the fact that its principles were very hastily merged with the beliefs of the Semites and it is now very difficult to separate the defined religious characteristics of each ethnic group, it is said that the great part of the written creation It was transcribed by Semitic and non-Sumerian interpreters, in the sketches of the Sumerian-Akkadian religion there is much more authority from the Semitic schools than from the Sumerians themselves.
Sumerian legends, at first were given by oral practice until the invention of writing. Prehistoric Sumerian cuneiform writing was handled primarily as an instrument of administrative regulation, and it was not until the Archaic Monarchical period roughly around 2900 BC. C. and 2334 a. C., when the religious messages would become consecutive, especially the songs of praise of the temple and as a form of incantation or incantation called nam-šub that means to cast or emit, which together with confusing rites could achieve that a person healed.
The Sumerians professed that in the beginning it was the sea that fertilized the universe, formed by an arched sky and a terrestrial disk, distant and at the same time were united by an immense space in movement and recreation, whose ownership declined in Enlil, god of the wind; out of that space or sky, luminous elements called moon, sun, and stars were founded, later on earth, forests, mountains, man.
To take control of all these elements, the four greatest and most powerful gods created other immortal, superior beings, with a human physique, but enormously more perfect and invisible, these were the demigods, all of them constituting the Sumerian pantheon.
