This study deals withseveral characters of the mentioned deities in the epic and the most important roles they played. Several deities were mentioned in the epic, among them major deities such as Anu, Anil, Aya, Ishtar, and Shamash, and inferior deities such as Nanson, the mother of Gilgamesh, Urue the creator, and the deities entrusted with the creation of the flood like Adad, Ninurta, and others.