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Ninsun (also called Ninsumun, cuneiform: 𒀭𒊩𒌆𒄢 d NIN.SUMUN 2; Sumerian: Nin-sumun(ak) "lady of the wild cows" [3]) was a Mesopotamian goddess.She is best known as the mother of the hero Gilgamesh and wife of deified legendary king Lugalbanda, and appears in this role in most versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Name Image Overview Ninsun Ninsumunna [43] Ninsun, "lady of wild cows", [43] is a well attested Mesopotamian goddess, worshiped through all periods of the region's antiquity. [44] She is consistently identified as Gilgamesh's mother both in the Old Babylonian fragments of the epic and in the later standardized edition. [24]
[348] [349] He is the son of the sky-god An [348] and his wife is an obscure, minor goddess named Mami, who is different from the mother goddess with the same name. [ 348 ] [ 350 ] As early as the Akkadian Period, Erra was already associated with Nergal [ 348 ] [ 349 ] and he eventually came to be seen as merely an aspect of him.
Possibly included among the original mother goddesses was Damgalnuna/Diĝirmaḫ (great wife of the prince) or Damkina (Sumerian: 𒀭𒁮𒆠𒈾, “true wife”), the consort of the god Enki. [13] Nintur was another name assigned to Ninhursag as a birth goddess, though sometimes she was a separate goddess entirely. [14]
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Ninsun (D NIN.SÚN) as the mother of Gilgamesh in the Epic of Gilgamesh (standard Babylonian version), appears in 5 of the 12 chapters (tablets I, II, III, IV, and XII). The other personage using NIN is the god Ninurta (D NIN.URTA), who appears in Tablet I, and especially in the flood myth of Tablet XI.
Uraš (Sumerian: 𒀭𒅁, romanized: d Uraš), or Urash, was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the personification of the earth. She should not be confused with a male deity sharing the same name, who had agricultural character and was worshiped in Dilbat.
Nisaba's epithets include "lady of wisdom," "professor of great wisdom" (geštu 2 diri tuku-e) [15] "unsurpassed overseer" (ugulu-nu-diri; ugula is an office known for example from Eshnunna, conventionally translated as "overseer"), [16] and "opener of the mouth of the great gods."