A Pocket Guide to the names and descriptions of the main gods of Sumer mythology, in a simple and quick format. The Sumerians were adherents of a polytheistic religion characterized by gods and anthropomorphic goddesses representing forces or presences in the material world, this notion quite present in the later Greek mythology. The gods originally created humans as servants for themselves, but freed them when they became too difficult to handle. Many stories in Sumerian religion appear homol