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Then the goddess Ḫannaḫanna sent forth a bee to bring him back. The bee found Telipinu, stung him and smeared wax upon him. The bee found Telipinu, stung him and smeared wax upon him. The god grew even angrier and it was not until the goddess Kamrusepa (or a mortal priest, according to some references) used a ritual to send his anger to the ...
Ninkasi was the goddess of beer, and as such was associated with its production, consumption and effects - both positive and negative. [8] Jeremy Black described her as "one of (...) minor deities without a strongly defined personality who merely symbolise the object or phenomenon that they are associated with."
Beer goddess may refer to: Dea Latis, Celtic goddess of beer. Mbaba Mwana Waresa, Zulu goddess of the rainbow, agriculture, rain and beer. Nephthys, Egyptian goddess of beer. Ninkasi, Sumerian goddess of beer. Nokhubulwane, see Mbaba Mwana Waresa. Siduri, wise female divinity of beer in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Siris (goddess), Mesopotamian ...
Ki was a Sumerian goddess who was the personification of the earth. [391] In some Sumerian accounts, she is a primordial being who copulates with An to produce a variety of plants. [ 401 ] An and Ki collectively were an object of worship in Umma and Lagash in the Ur III period, [ 353 ] but the evidence for worship of her is scarce and her name ...
The temple of ʿAṯtartu was likely located within the city of Ugarit, perhaps within the complex of the city's royal palace itself, with administrative records mentioning the existence of cultic personnel devoted to the goddess at this temple, the Ugaritic Akkadian text RS 20.235 referring to a servant of the goddess and the text KTU 4.163 ...
Inanna was the Sumerian goddess of love, sexuality, prostitution, and war. [ 20 ] : 109 She was the divine personification of the planet Venus , the morning and evening star. [ 20 ] : 108–109 Her main cult center was the Eanna temple in Uruk , which had been originally dedicated to An. [ 35 ]
In an ancient Sumerian poem, a fly helps the goddess Inanna when her husband Dumuzid is being chased by galla demons. [10] Flies also appear on Old Babylonian seals as symbols of Nergal, the god of death [10] and fly-shaped lapis lazuli beads were often worn by many different cultures in ancient Mesopotamia, along with other kinds of fly-jewellery. [10]
Inanna [a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power.Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar [b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯).