The
Kassites, the
ancient Near Eastern people who seized power in
Babylonia following the fall of the
first Babylonian Dynasty and subsequently went on to rule it for some three hundred and fifty years during the
late bronze age, possessed a pantheon of gods but few are known beyond the laconic mention in the theophoric element of a name. The only
Kassite deities who had separate and distinct temples anywhere in Babylonia were apparently the patron deities of the royal family, Šuqamuna and Šumaliya.