Mesopotamia
The earliest discovered civilizations and early dynasties of the middle east begin with dates such as 4th century BC, such as Ur and Nippur of 3100 BC.
Enki, Lord of Earth, Water & Springs (Mercury)
“Lord of Earth”, Spring, Running Water, House of Water, Mercury
He was originally the patron god of the city of Eridu, but later the influence of his cult spread throughout Mesopotamia and to the Canaanites, Hittites and Hurrians. He was associated with the southern band of constellations called stars of Ea, but also with the constellation AŠ-IKU, the Field (SquareA square occurs when two spheres are 90° away from each oth... More of Pegasus).
Beginning around the second millennium BCE, he was sometimes referred to in writing by the numeric ideogram for “40”, occasionally referred to as his “sacred number”.
The planet Mercury, associated with Babylonian Nabu (the son of Marduk) was, in Sumerian times, identified with Enki.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eridu (ruins)
Inanna, or Ishtar
Inanna[a] is an ancient Mesopotamian goddess associated with love, beauty, sex, war, justice and political power. She was originally worshiped in Sumer under the name “Inanna”, and was later worshiped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians under the name “Ishtar”. She was known as the “Queen of Heaven” and was the patron goddess of the Eanna temple"Temple; From the word tempus, meaning time. The Temple is c... at the city of Uruk, which was her main cult center. She was associated with the planet Venus and her most prominent symbols included the lion and the eight-pointed star. Her husband was the god Dumuzid (later known as Tammuz) and her sukkal, or personal attendant, was the goddess Ninshubur (who later became conflated with the male deities Ilabrat and Papsukkal).
Wiki on Inanna
Inanna was worshiped in Sumer at least as early as the Uruk period (c. 4000 BCE – c. 3100 BCE), but she had little cult activity before the conquest of Sargon of Akkad.
Ninurta, or Nimrod
“God of Agriculture”
“Lord [of] Girsu”),[3][4] is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war who was first worshipped in early Sumer. In the earliest records, he is a god of agriculture and healing, who cures humans of sicknesses and releases them from the power of demons. In later times, as Mesopotamia grew more militarized, he became a warrior deity, though he retained many of his earlier agricultural attributes. He was regarded as the son of the chief god Enlil and his main cult center in Sumer was the Eshumesha temple"Temple; From the word tempus, meaning time. The Temple is c... in Nippur. Ninĝirsu was honored by King"King; Comes from the root Kin, like kindred. Originally the... Gudea of Lagash (ruled 2144–2124 BC), who rebuilt Ninĝirsu’s temple"Temple; From the word tempus, meaning time. The Temple is c... in Lagash…
Wiki on Ninurta
In the epic poem Lugal-e, Ninurta slays the demon Asag using his talking mace Sharur and uses stones to build the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to make them useful for irrigation. In a poem sometimes referred to as the “Sumerian Georgica”, Ninurta provides agricultural advice to farmers. In an Akkadian myth, he was the champion of the gods against the Anzû bird after it stole the Tablet of Destinies from his father Enlil and, in a myth that is alluded to in many works but never fully preserved, he killed a group of warriors known as the “Slain Heroes”. His major symbols were a perched bird and a plow.
Ninurta may have been the inspiration for the figure of Nimrod, a “mighty hunter” who is mentioned in association with Kalhu in the Book of Genesis"Genesis; means the Genes of Isis or Generation of Isis. Thi.... Conversely, and more conventionally, the mythological Ninurta may have been inspired by a historical person, such as the biblical Nimrod purports to be. He may also be mentioned in the Second Book of Kings under the name Nisroch.[a] In the nineteenth century, Assyrian stone reliefs of winged, eagle-headed figures from the temple"Temple; From the word tempus, meaning time. The Temple is c... of Ninurta at Kalhu were commonly, but erroneously, identified as “Nisrochs” and they appear in works of fantasy literature from the time"Time; From Amit (Sanskrit), which means endless or immeasur... period.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninurta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisroch (2 Kings 19:37, Isaiah 37:38 in the days of Babylonia, who was killed by his two sons)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sennacherib (whos father killed Marduk and who allied with Elamites and destroyed Babylon before the attack on Jerusalem, before transfering )
Anshar seems to embody the ancient empire heritage/peoples before Babylon formed. And later is translated to higher rank than even that of Enlil or Enki (personified beings that formed or became nations/groups or families). Translating to “the whole heaven” in Enuma Elisha (the Babylonia creation myth). Being parents of Anu (god of heave, lord of constellations, kings of gods, spirts and demons).
Aššur was a deified form of the city of Assur, which dates from the mid 3rd millennium BC and was the capital of the Old Assyrian kingdom. As such, Ashur did not originally have a family, but as the cult came under southern Mesopotamian influence, he later came to be regarded as the Assyrian equivalent of Enlil, the chief god of Nippur.
Wiki on Ashur
Enlil was the most important god of the southern pantheon from the early 3rd millennium BC until Hammurabi founded an empire based in Babylon in the mid-18th century BC, after which Marduk replaced Enlil as the chief god in the south. In the north, Ashur absorbed Enlil’s wife Ninlil (as the Assyrian goddess Mullissu) and his sons Ninurta and Zababa—this process began around the 14th century BC and continued down to the 7th century.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C5%ABma_Eli%C5%A1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anshar