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In Enki and Ninhursag, the goddess complains to Enki that the city of Dilmun is lacking in water. [82] As a result, Enki makes the land rich, and Dilmun becomes a prosperous wetland. [82] Afterwards, he and Ninhursag sleep together, resulting in a daughter, Ninsar [83] (called Ninnisig in the ETCSL translation, [84] Ninmu by Kramer [85]).
Initially no city had Ninhursag as its tutelary goddess. [116] Later her main temple was the E-Mah in Adab, [108] originally dedicated to a minor male deity, Ašgi. [117] She was also associated with the city of Kesh, [108] where she replaced the local goddess Nintur, [111] and she was sometimes referred to as the "Bēlet-ilī of Kesh" or "she ...
Ki, goddess of the earth; Ninhursag, mother goddess of the earth, fertility, mountains, and rulers; Šumugan, in Sumerian mythology, god of the river plains, given charge by the god Enki over the flat alluvial lands of southern Mesopotamia; Nuska vizier of the chief Sumerian god Enlil but later associated with Nippur ("Enlil City") as the god ...
Ninti (Sumerian: 𒀭𒎏𒋾; "mistress of life" [1]) was a Mesopotamian goddess worshiped in Lagash.She was regarded as the mother of Ninkasi.She also appears in the myth Enki and Ninhursag as one of the deities meant to soothe the eponymous god's pain.
Aruru was a Mesopotamian goddess.The origin of her name is presently uncertain. While initially considered an independent deity associated with vegetation and portrayed in hymns as violent, she eventually came to be viewed as analogous Ninhursag.
The Anunnaki were believed to be the offspring of An and the earth goddess Ki. [2] Samuel Noah Kramer identifies Ki with the Sumerian mother goddess Ninhursag, stating that they were originally the same figure. [3] [4] The oldest of the Anunnaki was Enlil, the god of air [5] and chief god of the Sumerian pantheon. [6]
Ninkurra or Ninkur was a name of multiple Mesopotamian deities, including a divine artisan, presumably a female sculptor.There is no agreement among researchers if this Ninkurra corresponds to the identically named goddess appearing in the myth Enki and Ninhursag.
Mami, also known as Belet-ili, or Nintu, is a goddess in the Babylonian epic Atra-Hasis and in other creation legends. She was probably synonymous with Ninhursag.She was involved in the creation of humankind from clay and blood.