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Ninhursag in her mother/birth aspects was also likely affiliated with a group of seven minor goddesses known as the Šassūrātu, "wombs", who were assistants of mother goddesses. [64] These seven appear in Enki and Ninmah to assist in fashioning humankind from clay alongside their mistress, and are listed as Ninimma , Shuzianna , Ninmada ...
Nergal (Sumerian: 𒀭𒄊𒀕𒃲 [1] d KIŠ.UNU or d GÌR.UNU.GAL; [2] Hebrew: נֵרְגַל, Modern: Nergal, Tiberian: Nērgal; Aramaic: ܢܸܪܓܲܠ; [3] Latin: Nirgal) was a Mesopotamian god worshiped through all periods of Mesopotamian history, from Early Dynastic to Neo-Babylonian times, with a few attestations indicating that his cult survived into the period of Achaemenid domination.
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 ...
Ninhursag's sacred fox then fetches the goddess. Ninhursag relents and takes Enki's Ab (water, or semen) into her body, and gives birth to gods of healing of each part of the body: Abu for the jaw, Nanshe for the throat, Nintul for the hip, Ninsutu for the tooth, Ninkasi for the mouth, Dazimua for the side, Enshagag for the limbs.
In later times, Ereshkigal was believed to rule alongside her husband Nergal, the god of death. The major deities in the Sumerian pantheon included An, the god of the heavens, Enlil, the god of wind and storm, AnKi Enki, the god of water and human culture, Ninhursag , the goddess of fertility and the earth, Utu , the god of the sun and justice ...
This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender. ... Ninhursag (Aruru, Damgalnuna, Damkina, Ninmah, Nintu) Ninigizibara; Ninimma;
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.
Mat Zemlya, ancient goddess of the earth; Mokosh, goddess of fertility, moisture, women, the earth, and death. One of the oldest and only goddess in the slavic religion, Old Kievan pantheon of AD 980 mentions Mokoš, which survives in East Slavic folk traditions. Known as a woman who in the evening spins flax and wool, shears sheep, and has a ...