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URTA, possible meaning "Lord [of] Barley"), [1] also known as Ninฤirsu (Sumerian: ๐ญ๐๐๐ข: D NIN. ฤIR 2.SU, meaning "Lord [of] Girsu "), [2] is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war who was first worshipped in early Sumer. In the earliest records, he is a god of agriculture and ...
Inanna[a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar[b] (and occasionally the logogram ๐๐ฏ). Her primary title is "the Queen ...
Min, ancient Egyptian god of fertility and lettuce. Amun, creator-god, associated with fertility. Bastet, cat goddess sometimes associated with fertility. Hathor, goddess of music, beauty, love, sexuality and fertility. Heqet, frog-goddess of fertility. Heryshaf, god of creation and fertility. Isis, goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility.
Enki was god of freshwater, male fertility, and knowledge. [20]: 75 His most important cult center was the E-abzu temple in the city of Eridu. [20]: 75 He was the patron and creator of humanity [20]: 75 and the sponsor of human culture. [20]: 75 His primary consort was Ninhursag, the Sumerian goddess of the earth.
Ninhursag๐ญ๐ฉ๐๐ฏ๐. Mother goddess, goddess of fertility, mountains, and rulers. Akkadian cylinder seal impression depicting a vegetation goddess, possibly Ninhursag, sitting on a throne surrounded by worshippers (circa 2350–2150 BC) Symbol. Omega-like symbol. Genealogy.
Samuel Noah Kramer, writing in 1963, stated that the three most important deities in the Mesopotamian pantheon during all periods were the deities An, Enlil, and Enki. [31] However, newer research shows that the arrangement of the top of the pantheon could vary depending on time period and location.
According to the Sumerian King List (ETCSL 2.1.1), Dumuzid was the fifth antediluvian king of the city of Bad-tibira. [4] Dumuzid was also listed as an early king of Uruk, [4] where he was said to have come from the nearby village of Kuara [4] and to have been the consort of the goddess Inanna. [4]
In Sumerian mythology, a me (๐จ; Sumerian: me; Akkadian: paršu) is one of the decrees of the divine that is foundational to Sumerian religious and social institutions, technologies, behaviors, mores, and human conditions that made Mesopotamian civilization possible. They are fundamental to the Sumerian understanding of the relationship ...