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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]
Antu is a goddess who was invented during the Akkadian Period (c. 2334 BC – 2154 BC) as a consort for Anu, [52] [59] and appears in such a role in the god list An = Anum. [280] Her name is a female version of Anu's own. [52] [59] She was worshiped in the late first miilennium BCE in Uruk in the newly built temple complex dedicated to Anu. [281]
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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.
Dingirmah was also present in the An = Anum god list, which listed her alongside Ninhursag, Ninmah, Aruru and Nintur. It is uncertain whether these were all regarded as variant names for the same goddess or different goddesses with similar functions. [23] A temple dedicated to Dingirmah, the E-maḫ, was built in Adab by a local ruler. [24]
Sulis, British goddess whose name is related to the common Proto-Indo-European word for "Sun" and thus cognate with Helios, Sól, Sol, and Surya and who retains solar imagery, as well as a domain over healing and thermal springs. Probably the de facto solar deity of the Celts.
The name of the Ugaritic deity d Su-ra-su-gu-WA (reading of the final sign uncertain), only known from a single offering list, might be Hurrian in origin. [291] Šala: Mesopotamian [292] The name of Šala, a goddess who was the wife of the Mesopotamian weather god Adad, is assumed to be derived from the Hurrian word šāla, "daughter."