Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Ninkasi" | Sumeria | Ancient matron goddess of beer. One of the eight children created in order to heal one of the eight wounds that Enki receives. Sumeria |
Goddess name "Ninkigal" | Assyrian | the lady of the great region, goddess worshiped in Babylon. The sister of Ishtar and the wife of the Assyrian Pluto. |
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" | Sumeria | A minor mother goddess. Sumeria |
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 "Ninlil" | Sumeria | lady of the open field). After her death, she became the goddess of the air, like Enlil. She may be the Goddess of the South wind referred to in the story of Adapa, as her husband Enlil was åśśociated with northerly Winter storms. Sumeria |
Goddess name "Ninlil" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Goddess of the air and of grain. She is the daughter of the god of stores, Haia, and the barley goddess, Ninsebargunnu. The consort of the air god Enlil, who impregnated her with water to create the moon god Nana, she also conceived the underworld god Nergal when Enlil impregnated her disguised as the gateman of Nippur. In a similar manner she conceived the underworld god Ninazu when Enlil impregnated her disguised as the man of the river of the nether world, the man-devouring river. According to some texts she is also the mother of Ninurta, the god of the plough and thunderstorms.... |
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 "Ninmah aka Ninhursag" | Sumeria | Was the earth and mother-goddess, one of the seven great deities of Sumer. Sumeria |
Goddess name "Ninmena" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria | A another mother goddess |
"Ninmenta" | Sumeria | Ninmenta was stunned at these words of the Anzu chick. Ninmenta gave out a wail: 'And what about me? These me have not fallen into my hand. I shall not exercise their lordship. I shall not live like him in the shrine, in the abzu.' Father Enki in the abzu knew what had been said. Sumeria |
Goddess name "Ninmrna (lady of the crown)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Mother goddess. Probably became syncretized with Ninhursagaa.... |
Goddess name "Ninni" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Goddess. A modern mis-reading of Innin, which is itself an outmoded version of the name Inana.... |
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 "Nins us inak" | Elamite / Iran | National god. Derived from a... |
God name "Ninshorsag" | Babylon | God od of Life. babylon |
Goddess name "Ninsikil" | Origin | A tutelary goddess of Dilmun, the place of åśśembly of the gods, their meeting place and, so far as the Sumerians were concerned, the place of their origin. Her name means the pure queen. |