Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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.... |
God name "Ninshorsag" | Babylon | God od of Life. babylon |
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.... |
Goddess name "Nintur" | Babylon | Goddess of the womb Babylon |
God name "Nintura" | Akkadia | God of thunderstorms and the plow Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |
God name "Ninurta" | Babylon | God of Agriculture, Rain, fertility, war, thunderstorms, wells, canals and floods. Babylon |
Goddess name "Nouhro" | Babylon | Goddess of Light. Babylon |
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 "Nusku" | Babylon | God of light and fire. Babylon |
Goddess name "Omorca" | Babylonian | The goddess who was sovereign of the universe when it was first created. It was covered with water and darkness, but contained some few animals of monster forms, representations of which may be seen in the Temple of Bel. Babylonian |
God name "Pa-bil-sag" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Babylon / Akkadia | The tutelary god of Isin |
Goddess name "Pa-bil-sag" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Tutelary god of Isin. The consort of the goddess NIN'INSINNA. Identified with the city of Larak (lost), texts describe Pabilsag journeying to Nippur and presenting the god ENLIL with gifts. He is given the epithet of the wild bull with multicolored legs.... |
God name "Pap-nigin-gara (lord of the boundary stone)" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | God of war. Syncretized with NINURTA.... |