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Ninsun (also called Ninsumun, cuneiform: ð’€ð’Š©ð’Œ†ð’„¢ 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.
Ra, fire god of the sun, light, warmth, and growth; Sekhmet, protective lioness goddess of war, along with some elements of disease and curing of disease.Sometimes referenced in relation to the sun and its power, so possibly had to do with upkeep of the sun at times and fire
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
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]
Lalahon, in Philippine mythology, Goddess of fire, volcanoes and harvest. [3] Kan-Laon, Visayan god of time associated with the volcano Kanlaon. Gugurang, Bicolano god of fire and volcanoes who lives inside Mayon Volcano which erupts whenever he's enraged.
Lisin was a Mesopotamian deity initially regarded as a goddess and addressed as ama, "mother," who later came to be regarded as a god and developed an association with fire. The name was also applied to a star associated with Nabu , presumed to correspond to Antares .
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]