Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Niniiniinna" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Fertility goddess. A daughter of An and Uras and probably an alternative name for Istar. She is the consort of the god Pabilsag and is mentioned in respect of a sanctuary built by warad Sin during the Isin dynasty. Texts describe her going to present Enlil with gifts in Nippur. Other inscriptions suggest she was the mother of the god Damu (Dumuzi).... |
God name "Ninkaranunna" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Babylon / Akkadian | A Barber god |
God name "Ninkarnunna" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Barber god. An attendant of the god Ninurta.... |
God name "Ninkigal" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Chthonic god. Worshiped at Ur and Umma during the period of the third dynasty of Ur. Celebrations included the eses monthly lunar festivals.... |
Goddess name "Ninkurra" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor mother goddess. Ninkurra is linked briefly as consort to Enlil (her grandfather), by whom after nine days of gestation she gave birth to the goddess Uttu. In alternative mythology she was the mother of Nin-imma, the deification of female sex organs.... |
Goddess name "Ninmah" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Babylon / Akkadian | A mother goddess |
Goddess name "Ninmah" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Mother goddess. Probably an early syncretization with Ninhursaga a. Identified in creation texts acting as midwife while the mother goddess Nammu makes different kinds of human individuals from lumps of clay at a feast given by Enki to celebrate the creation of humankind. Also regarded as the mother of the goddess Uttu by Enki.See also Ninhursagaa.... |
Goddess name "Nins ubur" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Messenger God (Goddess). The servant of the goddess Inana, she is particularly prominent in the legend of Inana's Descent and the death of Dumuzi. In Akkadian texts the sex changes to a male personality, the minister of Anu.... |
Goddess name "Ninsun" | Akkadia | Mother of Gilgamesh and the wild bull Dumuzi, and wife of Lugalbands. A goddess of Gudea, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Akkadia and Sumeria. Aka, "Rimat-Ninsun", the "august cow", the "Wild cow of the Enclosure", and "The Great queen. |
Goddess name "Ninsun(a) (lady wild cow)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | cow goddess. Tutelary goddess of Gudea of Lagas.. Consort of the Sumerian heroic king Lugalbanda and also identified as the mother of the hero Gilgames..... |
Goddess name "Ninsun[a]" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Babylon / Akkadian | A cow goddess that was the tutelary goddess of Gudea |
Goddess name "Nintu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Mother goddess. According to legend she pinched off fourteen pieces of primordial clay which she formed into womb deities, seven on the left and seven on the right with a brick between them, who produced the first seven pairs of human embryos. She is closely identified with the goddess Ninhursaga a and may have become Belet Ili (mistress of the gods) when, at Enki's suggestion, the gods slew one among themselves and used his blood and flesh, mixed with clay, to create mankind.... |
God name "Nintura" | Akkadia | God of thunderstorms and the plow Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |
God name "Nudimmud" | Akkadian | An Akkadian epithet of the Mesopotamian god Ea which meant 'begetter', referring to his fathering of Marduk; he is referred to by this name in the Enuma Elish. |
God name "Nudimmud" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Creator god. Rapidly syncretized with the Akkadian god EA.... |
Goddess name "Nunbarsegunu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Obscure mother goddess. Mentioned in creation texts as the old woman of Nippur, she is identified as the mother of NINLIL, the air goddess. Nunbarsegunu allegedly instructs her daughter in the arts of obtaining the attentions of ENLIL.... |
God name "Nus ku" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of light. The son of ENLIL. Also a god of fire, he is symbolized by a lamp. Sanctuaries have been identified at Harran and Neirab.... |
God name "Pa-bil-sag" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Babylon / Akkadia | The tutelary god of Isin |