Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Tiamat" | Babylonian | The primordial mother goddess in Babylonian and Sumerian mythology, and a central figure in the Enuma Elish creation epic. |
Goddess name "Uras" | Sumeria | Urash, a goddess of earth, and one of the consorts of the sky god An. She is the mother of the goddess Nininsinna. Sumeria |
Goddess name "Uras" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Chthonic earth goddess. One of the named consorts of the sky god AN and the mother of NIN'INSINNA.... |
God name "Utnapishtim" | Sumerian | Utnapishtim is the wise king of the Sumerian city state of Shuruppak who, along with his wife, survived a great flood sent by Enlil to drown every living thing on earth. Utnapishtim was secretly warned by the water god Ea of Enlil's planned and constructed a great boat or ark to save himself, his family and representatives of each species of animal. |
Goddess name "Uttu" | Sumeria | The goddess of weaving and clothing. Sumeria |
Goddess name "Uttu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | vegetation goddess and goddess of weaving. Not to be confused with UTU the Sun god, Uttu is a minor deity whose father is ENKI. According to legend, Enki first impregnated the mother goddess NINHURSAG A, whose nine-day gestation produced the goddess NIN-S'AR. She in turn was impregnated by Enki and, after a similar nine-day gestation, gave birth to the goddess NINKURRA. Through the same procedure with her grandfather, Ninkurra conceived the goddess Uttu. She is depicted as the goddess of weaving and of spiders.... |
God name "Utu" | Sumeria | God of the Sun and justice who rules the fate of the dead. Sumeria |
God name "mm" | Mesopotamian | storm god. The cuneiform generally taken to refer to a storm god and therefore probably meaning either IS KUR (Sumerian) or ADAD (Akkadian).... |