Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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 "Nintinugga" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Goddess. See Gula.... |
Goddess name "Nintinugga/ Gula" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria | A goddess |
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 "Nu Mus Da" | Mesopotamia | Tutelary god of a lost city of Kazullu Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
God name "Nu Mus Da" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Tutelary god. The patron deity of the lost city of Kazallu, mentioned in texts.... |
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 |
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.... |
Goddess name "Pabilsag" | Mesopotamia | Tutelary god of Isin The consort of the goddess Nininsinna, he was identified with the lost city of Larak. Mesopotamia |
God name "Pap-nigin-gara" | Mesopotamia | God of war who was lord of the boundary stone. Mesopotamia |
God name "Pap-nigin-gara (lord of the boundary stone)" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | God of war. Syncretized with NINURTA.... |