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Meme or Memešaga was a Mesopotamian goddess possibly regarded as a divine caretaker. While originally fully separate, she eventually came to be treated as one and the same as Gula, and as such came to be associated with medicine. The god list An = Anum additionally indicates she served as the sukkal (attendant deity) of Ningal.
It is assumed that Damu was originally regarded as a dying god. [1] In that capacity, he might have been associated with trees. [2] He was most likely envisioned as a child, possibly an infant, in contrast with other dying gods who were instead described as young men, [3] and were often referred to with the term g̃uruš, conventionally translated as "lad". [4]
The Sumerian god Enki (Ea in the Akkadian language) was believed to have keen eyes and appeared out of the abzû since before human beings were created. His wife Damgalnuna , his mother Nammu , his advisor Isimud and a variety of subservient creatures, such as the gatekeeper Lahmu , also lived in the abzû.
Ilawela (formerly variously transcribed as Geshtu-(E), Geshtu, Gestu, or We-ila) [1] is, in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, a minor god of intelligence. In the Atra-Hasis Epic [2] he was sacrificed by the great gods and his blood was used in the creation of mankind: Ilawela who had intelligence, They slaughtered in their assembly. Nintu mixed clay
Enki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒂗𒆠 D EN-KI) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki.He was later known as Ea (Akkadian: 𒀭𒂍𒀀) or Ae [5] in Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) religion, and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion.
The effect that seeing a deity's melam has on a human is described as ni, a word for the "physical creeping of the flesh". [5] Both the Sumerian and Akkadian languages contain many words to express the sensation of ni, [4] including the word puluhtu, meaning "fear". [5]
In Sumerian mythology, a me (𒈨; Sumerian: me; Akkadian: paršu) is one of the decrees of the divine that is foundational to Sumerian religious and social institutions, technologies, behaviors, mores, and human conditions that made Mesopotamian civilization possible.
Mesopotamian mythology refers to the myths, religious texts, and other literature that comes from the region of ancient Mesopotamia which is a historical region of Western Asia, situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system that occupies the area of present-day Iraq.