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  2. Burney Relief - Wikipedia

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    The Burney Relief (also known as the Queen of the Night relief) is a Mesopotamian terracotta plaque in high relief of the Isin-Larsa period or Old-Babylonian period, depicting a winged, nude, goddess-like figure with bird's talons, flanked by owls, and perched upon two lions.

  3. Lilith - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 December 2024. Female entity in Near Eastern mythology This article is about the religious figure Lilith. For other uses, see Lilith (disambiguation). Lilith Lilith (1887) by John Collier Lilith, also spelled Lilit, Lilitu, or Lilis, is a feminine figure in Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, theorized ...

  4. Ekur - Wikipedia

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    The physical structure of the Ekur included shrines and storehouses where foreigners brought offerings. These included the shrines of Enlil's wife Ninlil (her chamber, the Gagisua is described as the place where they lived happily together) and their sons, Nanna and Ninurta along with the house of his vizier Nuska and mistress Suzianna.

  5. Ninlil - Wikipedia

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    Ninlil (𒀭𒎏𒆤 D NIN.LÍL; meaning uncertain) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of Enlil.She shared many of his functions, especially the responsibility for declaring destinies, and like him was regarded as a senior deity and head of the pantheon.

  6. List of mythological places - Wikipedia

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    An ancient Chinese mythological mountain which, according to old texts, lay to the northwest of the Kunlun Mountains, in a location today referred to as the Pamir Mountains. Mount Penglai: A legendary mountain in Chinese mythology, said to be situated on an island in the Bohai sea, home to Taoist immortals. Moving Sands

  7. List of Mesopotamian deities - Wikipedia

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    Inanna, later known as Ishtar, is "the most important female deity of ancient Mesopotamia at all periods." [95] She was the Sumerian goddess of love, sexuality, prostitution, and war. [97] She was the divine personification of the planet Venus, the morning and evening star. [46]

  8. Ninhursag - Wikipedia

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    In a bilingual Akkadian-Amorite lexical list from the Old Babylonian period which presumably originated in southern Mesopotamia, [69] DIÄśIR.MAḪ (BÄ“let-ilÄ«) was equated with an Amorite deity named Ę”Aṯeratum (a-še-ra-tum), but according to Andrew R. George and Manfred Krebernik in this context the name designated Athirat, the goddess ...

  9. Nippur - Wikipedia

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    Nippur (Sumerian: Nibru, often logographically recorded as đ’‚— 𒆤 đ’† , EN.LÍL KI, "Enlil City;" [1] Akkadian: Nibbur) was an ancient Sumerian city. It was the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god Enlil, the "Lord Wind", ruler of the cosmos, subject to An alone.