A Compendium of the Ancient Gods

Themes

Plague and disease

18 gods of plague and disease, across six rooms, in the order the rooms are walked.

The Cradle of Cities

10 works

Asag, plate
Asag a-sag The Stone Demon of the Mountains — Adversary of Ninurta
Erra, plate
Erra er-ra The Bringer of Plague — God of Indiscriminate Violence
Gula, plate
Gula gu-la The Great Lady — goddess of healing
Iyarri, plate
Iyarri iyar-ri The Plague-God — Whose Arrows Carry Disease
Lamashtu, plate
Lamashtu la-mash-tu The Devourer — demoness of childbirth
Nergal, plate
Nergal ner-gal The Burning One — god of war, plague, and the underworld
Ninazu, plate
Ninazu ni-na-zu Lord of Healing and the Underworld — son of Ereshkigal
Pazuzu, plate
Pazuzu pa-zu-zu King of the Wind Demons — apotropaic against Lamashtu
Resheph, plate
Resheph re-sheph The Plague-Bringer — archer of disease
The Sebitti, plate
The Sebitti the se-bit-ti The Seven Warriors — Constellation of the Pleiades

The Gift of the Nile

1 work

Sekhmet, plate
Sekhmet sek-met The Lioness — Lady of Plague and War

The Olympian Order

1 work

Apollo, plate
Apollo uh-pol-oh The Far-Shooter — god of music, prophecy, and plague

The Persian World

2 works

Angra Mainyu, plate
Angra Mainyu ang-rah myn-yoo The Hostile Spirit — Ahriman in the later tradition; cosmic adversary of Ahura Mazda
Druj, plate
Druj druj The Lie — cosmic principle of falsehood and disorder

The Roman Inheritance

2 works

Awaiting its plate
Lua Saturni lua sa-tur-ni Lua of Saturn — to whom the captured arms of enemies were burnt
Robigus, plate
Robigus ro-bi-gus The God of Mildew, propitiated to spare the standing grain

The Northern Inheritance

2 works

Hel, plate
Hel hel Queen of the Underworld — Daughter of Loki
Awaiting its plate
Tuoni and Tuonetar tuo-ni and tuo-ne-tar King and Queen of the Finnish Underworld

Floor plan

The rooms follow one another in the order their peoples first appear in the written record.

  1. The Cradle of Citiesc. 3400 BCE to 395 CE. 115 works
  2. The Gift of the Nilec. 4000 BCE to 395 CE. 73 works
  3. The Olympian Orderc. 1600 BCE to 750 CE. 152 works
  4. The Persian Worldc. 2000 BCE to 1010 CE. 30 works
  5. The Levantine Borderlandsc. 1200 BCE to 500 CE. 20 works
  6. The Edges of Empirec. 2000 BCE to 1500 CE. 33 works
  7. The Etruscan Worldc. 900 BCE to 750 CE. 22 works
  8. The Roman Inheritancec. 1200 BCE to 500 CE. 58 works
  9. The Northern Inheritancec. 2000 BCE to 1600 CE. 131 works