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Epithet Location Notes Akuṣitum Akus [29]: Akuṣitum (also spelled Akusitum) was the epithet of Inanna as the goddess of Akus, attested in royal inscriptions of the Manāna dynasty near Kish, in a later religious text pertaining to the deities of that city, in the god list An = Anum (tablet IV, line 134), and in the name of one of the gates of Babylon.
The Sumerian hymn Inanna and Utu contains an etiological myth describing how Inanna became the goddess of sex. [207] At the beginning of the hymn, Inanna knows nothing of sex, [ 207 ] so she begs her brother Utu to take her to Kur (the Sumerian underworld), [ 207 ] so that she may taste the fruit of a tree that grows there, [ 207 ] which will ...
Queen of Heaven was a title given to several ancient sky goddesses worshipped throughout the ancient Mediterranean and the ancient Near East. Goddesses known to have been referred to by the title include Inanna, Anat, Isis, Nut, Astarte, and possibly Asherah (by the prophet Jeremiah). In Greco-Roman times, Hera and Juno bore this title. Forms ...
Inanna, later known as Ishtar, is "the most important female deity of ancient Mesopotamia at all periods." [95] She was the Sumerian goddess of love, sexuality, prostitution, and war. [97] She was the divine personification of the planet Venus, the morning and evening star. [46]
Ninigizibara was both the name of a goddess and of individual instruments placed in a number of temples of Inanna. [2] The instrument represented by her was the balaĝ . [ 4 ] The precise meaning of this Sumerian term is a matter of scholarly debate, though it is generally accepted that it referred first and foremost to a type of string ...
The Sumerian ninna can also be translated as the Akkadian kilili, which is also a name or epithet for Ishtar. Inanna/Ishtar as harlot or goddess of harlots was a well known theme in Mesopotamian mythology and in one text, Inanna is called kar-kid (harlot) and ab-ba-[šú]-šú, which in Akkadian would be rendered kilili. Thus there appears to ...
Ancient Sumerian statuette of two gala priests, dating to c. 2450 BC, found in the temple of Inanna at Mari. The Gala (Sumerian: 𒍑𒆪, romanized: gala, Akkadian: kalû) were priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. They made up a significant number of the personnel of both temples and palaces, the central institutions of Mesopotamian city ...
Dingir 𒀭 , usually transliterated DIĜIR, [1] (Sumerian pronunciation:) is a Sumerian word for 'god' or 'goddess'. Its cuneiform sign is most commonly employed as the determinative for religious names and related concepts, in which case it is not pronounced and is conventionally transliterated as a superscript d , e.g. d Inanna .