| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Beltiya (my lady)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Generic title of goddess. ZARPANITUM (SARPANITUM), the consort of the Babylonian god MARDUK, is often addressed as Beltiya.... |
| Goddess name "Damaannrna" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Mother goddess. She first appears as a consort of ENLIL and, as Mesopotamian traditions progress, becomes åśśociated with EA and the mother of the Babylonian god MARDUK. Also DAMKINA (Akkadian).... |
| Goddess name "Damkina" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess. Consort of Ea.See also DAMGALNUNA.... |
| Goddess name "Galla" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor underworld gods. Attendants of the goddess ERES KIGAL. Also Gallu.... |
| Goddess name "Gatumdug" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Fertility goddess. The daughter of the sky god AN, she is the tutelary mother goddess of Lagas'.... |
| Goddess name "Gula (great one)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess of healing. Consort of NINURTA. Her animal is the dog. She may be synonymous with NIN'INSINA. Also mentioned in Hellenistic Babylonian times. A Gula temple is described at Uruk. Also NINTINUGGA.... |
| Goddess name "Gunura" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | deity of uncertain status. Described variously as the husband of the goddess NIN'INSINA and the father of Damu (DUMUZI), but also as the sister of Damu.... |
| Goddess name "Is'ara" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian / / western Semitic | Goddess of marriage and childbirth. Also a deity concerned with the enforcing of oaths. Known chiefly from early inscriptions and some Akkadian texts. Her Mesopotamian cult center was the Babylonian town of Kisurra, but she is also thought to have been worshiped across a wide area among Syrians, Canaanites and Hittites. Her symbol is the scorpion. Also Es ara.... |
| Goddess name "Lahamu" | Babylonian | In the Babylonian story of creation, Lahama is the daughter of the primordial goddess Tiamat. She guards the gate to the sea; the sea is her dominion. She holds an overflowing vase; she contains, bestows the waters of life. The Seven Tablets of Creation |
| Goddess name "Mami" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Mother goddess. Identified in the Atrahasis texts and other creation legends and probably synonymous with NINHURSAG A. She was involved in the creation of mankind from clay and blood. The name almost certainly came into use because it is the first word that a child formulates. Also Mama; Mammitum.... |
| Goddess name "Mamitu" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess of oaths and treaties. One of the consorts of NERGAL and subsequently identified as a chthonic underworld deity. Also Mammetu.... |
| Goddess name "Mulliltu" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess. The consort of ELLIL (ENLIL) and of ASSUR. She derives from the Sumerian goddess NINLIL.... |
| Goddess name "NAMMU" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian / Iraq | Chthonic creator and birth goddess. Nammu is identified in various texts as the goddess of the watery deeps. As a consort of AN she is the mother of ENKI and the power of the riverbed to produce water. Alternatively Nammu is the progenitrix of An and KI, the archetypal deities of heaven and earth. She also engendered other early gods and in one poem is the mother of all mortal life. She molded clay collected by creatures called sig-en-sig-du and brought it to life, thus creating mankind. She is attended by seven minor goddesses and may ultimately have become syncretized with NINHURSAG A.... |
| Goddess name "NINURTA (lord plough)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian / Iraq | God of thunderstorms and the plough. Ninurta is the Sumerian god of farmers and is identified with the plough. He is also the god of thunder and the hero of the Sumerian pantheon, closely linked with the confrontation battles between forces of good and evil that characterize much of Mesopotamian literature. He is one of several challengers of the malignant dragon or serpent Kur said to inhabit the empty space between the earth's crust and the primeval sea beneath. Ninurta is the son of Enlil and Ninhursaga a, alternatively Ninlil, and is the consort of Gula, goddess of healing. He is attributed with the creation of the mountains which he is said to have built from giant stones with which he had fought against the demon Asag. He wears the horned helmet and tiered skirt and carries a weapon Sarur which becomes personified in the texts, having its own intelligence and being the chief adversary, in the hands of Ninurta, of Kur. He carries the double-edged scimitar-mace embellished with lions' heads and, according to some authors, is depicted in nonhuman form as the thunderbird lmdugud (sling stone), which bears the head of a lion and may represent the hailstones of the god. His sanctuary is the E-padun-tila. Ninurta is perceived as a youthful warrior and probably equates with the Babylonian heroic god Marduk. His cult involved a journey to Eridu from both Nippur and Girsu. He may be compared with Iskur, who was worshiped primarily by herdsmen as a storm god.... |
| Goddess name "Nanaja" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Fertility goddess. She is also a war goddess who became syncretized with the Babylonian TAS METU.... |
| Goddess name "Nergal" | Assyrian / Babylonian | One of the divinities who ruled the netherworld, a goddess of war & death |
| Goddess name "Neti" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Chthonic underworld god. Chief gatekeeper of the netherworld. The servant of the goddess ERES KIGAL. Neti features prominently in the epic legend of Inanas Descent into the underworld when he opens the seven gates of the realm and admits the goddess, removing one emblem of her power at the threshold of each gate.... |
| Goddess name "Nin-Imma" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Fertility goddess. Deification of the female sex organs, fathered by Enki with Ninkurra.... |
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