"Anu: King of the Gods"
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Anu was the divine personification of the sky, king of the gods, and ancestor of many of the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion.
He was regarded as a source of both divine and human kingship, and opens the enumerations of deities in many Mesopotamian texts
Anu briefly appears in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, in which his daughter Ishtar (the Akkadian counterpart of Inanna) persuades him to give her the Bull of Heaven so that she may send it to attack Gilgamesh. The incident results in the death of Enkidu.
In another myth, Anu summons the mortal hero Adapa before him for breaking the wing of the south wind. Anu orders for Adapa to be given the food and water of immortality, which Adapa refuses, having been warned beforehand by Enki that Anu will offer him the food and water of death.
(Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu)
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