Shortly after Nabonidus came to the throne, he had a dream in which the gods Marduk and Sin appeared before him and the former spoke to him ... to supplant Marduk as the head of the Mesopotamian pantheon.
The greatness of the world’s first empire, the Akkadian Empire (c. 2370-2190 BC), had a major impact on later Mesopotamian tradition ...Kings of An Epic Age (2021) ... On the divine level, similar myths were told about the great gods of those peoples ... News.