The various names would be used interchangeably, without much regard to their original force.
All the essential elements of the Babylonian religion are already to be found in the conditions prevailing during the period that we have been considering.

Some new deities are met with in the periods that followed, but there is no reason to believe that any profound changes in the manner of worship, or in the conceptions regarding the gods, were introduced.

The relations, however, which the gods bear to one another are considerably modified, their attributes become more sharply defined, the duties and privileges pertaining to each are regulated.

Hand in hand with this systematization, the organization of the cult becomes more perfect, the ritual enters upon further phases of development, speculations regarding the unknown have their outcome in the establishment of dogmas.

Finally the past, with its traditions and legends, is viewed under the aspect of later religious thought.