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* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Ninkasi, Siris and Siduri, goddesses of beer.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Many religious scholars believe that Inanna, due to the difficulty in deciphering the origin of her name, her constantly changing parentage, and the fact that she explicitly had no responsibilities at first, was originally a Proto-Euphratean goddess incorporated into the Sumerian pantheon.
* [[Chaos Entity]]: Tiamat is the primordial goddess of the sea and is a symbol of chaos. She is said to have filled the cosmic abyss with her husband, Abzu, with primal waters and being the mother of monsters.
* [[Chickification]]: Can be observed from looking at the oldest Sumerian myths to its later derivatives. One example is Nammu, who went from the sole creator goddess in Sumerian myths to her more well-known Babylonian version Tiamat, a co-creatrix who after the death of her husband became a tyrant who is probably the [[Ur Example]] of [[God Save Us From the Queen]]. Sumerian Ereshkigal was the sole ruler of the underworld, but in later Assyro-Babylonian myths she was subdued by Nergal and forced to cede her power to him. Several other goddesses known to us mainly as [[Shallow Love Interest]]s are also believed to have held more prominent roles in prehistory.
* [[Child Eater]]: Dimme and Dimme-kur (Akhkhazu). Sometimes Lilitu as well.
* [[Copy Cat Sue|Copy Cat Stu]]: In the lost Sumerian version of Enuma Elish, Enlil was probably responsible for vanquishing Nammu/Tiamat. In the Babylonian version, this honor was given to Marduk.
* [[Cosmic Close Call]]: A Babylonian myth recorded in the [[Talmud]] and transcribed by [[W. Somerset Maugham]] tells of a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to the marketplace for provisions, only for the servant to come home white and trembling. The servant was jostled by a woman whom he recognized as [[Death]], and fled to Samarra to hide from her after she makes a threatening gesture. The merchant later finds Death at the market place to inquire about the threatening gesture, and she replies:
{{quote|“That was not a threatening gesture, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I have an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.”}}
* [[Crapsack World]]: Humans were created to be slaves to the gods and when they died, they all went to the same gloomy underworld. Any wonder why their scribes wrote stuff like this:
{{quote|"Tears, lament, anguish, and depression are within me. Suffering overwhelms me. Evil fate holds me and carries off my life. Malignant sickness bathes me."}}
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* [[Death by Sex]]: Happens to all of Inanna's lovers eventually. This is why [[The Epic of Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] turns her down.
* [[Divine Parentage]]: The only humans who figure at all in the myths have this.
* [[Draconic Divinity]]: Tiamat is the goddess of the primordial sea, and the mother of many creatures including dragons. She's also frequently portrayed as a dragon herself, though there's no true "canonical" description of the form she took.<ref>Least of all the five-headed multihued version from ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.</ref>
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Though often described as dragons, Tiamat, Apsu, Kingu and Mummu fit this trope much better.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: The demon, Pazuzu was often invoked to ward off Dimme.
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