Jeremy Black and Anthony Green offer a slightly different perspective on the Igigi and the Anunnaki, writing that "lgigu or Igigi is a term introduced in the Old Babylonian Period as a name for the (ten) "great gods". In the Epic of Creation, it is said that there are 300 lgigu of heaven.

Abraham came from Sumer. His birth place was "Ur of the Chaldees", namely UR KAŠDIM (אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים).

Igigi may be also compared to the Sun-Disked Wings of Babylon and Egypt, visible also in Zoroastrian worship, or even Graeco-Roman drakon cults (Aesculap, for instance), as such they are not demi-gods but Gods, as far as mortal understanding goes in this mythopoesis. For more information, read: Foster, Benjamin R. 2005.

In Erra and Ishum, the Anunna appear in a similar fashion, but are now specifically the set of underworld deities, while the term Igigi is applied to the gods of the heavens. For that time I will govern and keep strong the regulation of heaven and earth, I will go up to heaven and issue instructions to the Igigi gods,

There are similarities between the stories of Noah from the Bible and Ziusudra hero of the Sumerian flood epic.

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Most likely the origin of Elohim were the Assyro-Babylonian Igigi, children of Annuna, the former called Nephilim by Enoch in the 3rd century before modern era. The formation of a single god for a single tribe was formed from a embattled peoples whose "utility" was political.

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