Their name is taken from the God of Heaven named 'Anu'. It is said that they are also referred to as a group of Gods related to the title Igigi, but it is not clearly described in history about this condition.
Based on the mythology of the great flood of Atra - Hasis it is said that Igigi is the sixth generation of the Gods who were forced to work for the Anunnaki, then this ended in a 40-day rebellion, all of this work of the Gods was replaced with humans.
It is said that humans were created by Anunnaki to do the gold mining that the Anunnaki needed to improve their planetary atmosphere damaged by war between races.
Enuma Elish also known as The Seven Tablets of Creation is the mythology of creation in the Sumerian belief, in this mythology is told that at this process of creation there are 600 Igigi from the sky.
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