But each people that Assyria had settled went ahead anyway making its own gods and setting them up in the neighborhood sex-and-religion shrines that the citizens of Samaria had left behind—a local custom-made god for each people:for Babylon, Succoth Benoth;for Cuthah, Nergal;for Hamath, Ashima;for Avva, Nibhaz and Tartak;for Sepharvaim, Adrammelech and Anammelech (people burned their children in sacrificial offerings to these gods!).