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is one who accepts my prayer'. It is also sometimes transcribed, albeit less probably, as 'Sîn-liqe-unninni', meaning 'O Sîn! Accept my prayer'. Several Úruk families in the Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid and Seleucid periods claimed Sîn-lēqi-unninni as their ancestor, specifically those who acted as
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argues that Sîn-lēqi-unninni "gave its final, fixed form". Tigay acknowledges that Sîn-lēqi-unninni shifted "Gilgamesh's greatness from deeds to the acquisition of knowledge". At time it was also known as "Gilgamesh series"
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or first line "ša nagba īmuru" ("He who saw the deep" or "The one who saw the Abyss"). The extent to which his version is different from earlier texts is unknown;
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believed this poem to have been the responsibility of a man called Sîn-liqe-unninni, a learned scholar of
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The prologue traditionally attributed to Sîn-lēqi-unninni was found in an earlier manuscript from Ugarit.
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whom modern scholars consider to have lived some time between 1300–1000 BC.
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Mesopotamian religion

Chaos Monster and Sun God
Religions of the ancient Near East
Anatolia
Ancient Egypt
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Babylonia
Sumer
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Semitic
Arabia
Canaan
Tiamat
Abzu
Lahamu
Lahmu
Kishar
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Anu
Enlil
Enki
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Nanna/Sin
Utu/Shamash
Adad
Dumuzid
Enkimdu

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