Mesopotamian folklore is the aggregate name given to Sumerian (around 5300 - 2334 BC), Akkadian (around 2334 - 2218 BC), Assyrian, and Babylonian folklore from the land between the Tigris and Euphrates waterways in Iraq.
The Sumerians rehearsed a polytheistic religion, in which human divine beings and goddesses addressed powers or existences on the planet, much as in later Greek folklore. As indicated by the above folklore, the divine beings initially made people as workers for themselves, yet when their numbers turned out to be too huge to even consider dealing with, they liberated them.
Numerous accounts from the Sumerian religion have all the earmarks of being like stories from other Center Eastern religions. For instance, the Scriptural record of the making of man as well as Noah's flood are basically the same as Sumerian stories, albeit the Sumerian fantasies were composed a few centuries before the Tanakh. The divine beings and goddesses of Sumer obviously have comparable portrayals in the religions of Akkadian, Canaanite, and others. Large numbers of the narratives and gods additionally have Greek equals; For instance, it has been contended by some that Inanna's plummet into the hidden world is strikingly suggestive of (and even originates before) the account of Persephone.
Each walled city of the early Mesopotamian progress was focused on a sanctuary complex including the state silo. Antiquarianism has shown that these sanctuaries developed from humble sanctuaries that were related with early non-walled degrees of settlement around 4500 BC. At first the sanctuaries were fundamentally a raised patio around a little structure of wood and branches where individuals came to give proper respect to Namma, the mother goddess, or An, the sky god. As urban communities developed into city-states, sanctums were obliterated, the site was evened out and a huge sanctuary was based on it. This bit by bit raised the sanctuaries over the degree of encompassing structures, in the end prompting the development of a sanctuary stage (ziggurat or later 'zikkorath') that raised the sanctuary to the sky - conceivably the beginning of the Scriptural story of Babylon. Tower.