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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]
Lugalbanda [a] was a deified Sumerian king of Uruk who, according to various sources of Mesopotamian literature, was the father of Gilgamesh.Early sources mention his consort Ninsun and his heroic deeds in an expedition to Aratta by King Enmerkar.
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]
Gilgamesh (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ɡ ə m ɛ ʃ /, [7] / ɡ ɪ l ˈ ɡ ɑː m ɛ ʃ /; [8] Akkadian: 𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦, romanized: Gilgameš; originally Sumerian: 𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌, romanized: Bilgames) [9] [a] was a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC.
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.
Compared to other divine couples (Shamash and Aya, Ishkur and Shala, Ninsianna and Kabta, Enki and Damkina, Lugalbanda and Ninsun and others) they are invoked together extremely rarely in seal inscriptions, with only one example presently known. [40] In one explanatory text, Haya is described as "Nisaba of prosperity" (Nisaba ša mašrê). [41]
Ninsun Poli is a Swedish-Assyrian singer and songwriter raised in Tumba, Botkyrka, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. This soul and R&B artist made her debut at Hultsfred Festival 2004 in Sweden followed by performances at Stockholm's Berns , Lydmar , Alcazar and Nalen and at Malmö Festival in Malmö in summer of 2006.