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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.
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]
Ninhursag was not the tutelary goddess of any major city, her cult presence being attested first in smaller towns and villages. [22] It is possible that she was viewed originally more as a nurturing than a birth goddess. [29] Another theory posits that, along with the goddess Nintur, she was the birth goddess of wild and domesticated animals. [22]
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.
He is the husband of the goddess Ninsun and the father of the mortal hero Gilgamesh. [425] He is mentioned as a god alongside Ninsun in a list of deities as early as the Early Dynastic Period. [425] A brief fragment of a myth about him from this same time period is also preserved. [425]
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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."
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.