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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 ๐๐ฏ). Her primary title is "the Queen ...
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]
Nanshe (Sumerian: ๐ญ ๐ d NANŠE (AB แธชA)[2]) was a Mesopotamian goddess in various contexts associated with the sea, marshlands, the animals inhabiting these biomes, namely bird and fish, as well as divination, dream interpretation, justice, social welfare, and certain administrative tasks. She was regarded as a daughter of Enki and ...
Possibly included among the original mother goddesses was Damgalnuna/Diฤirmaแธซ (great wife of the prince) or Damkina (Sumerian: ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ ๐พ, “true wife”), the consort of the god Enki. [13] Nintur was another name assigned to Ninhursag as a birth goddess, though sometimes she was a separate goddess entirely. [14]
e. Enheduanna (Sumerian: ๐๐ถ๐๐ญ๐พ[1] Enแธซéduanna, also transliterated as Enheduana, En-he2-du7-an-na, or variants) was the entu (high) priestess of the moon god Nanna (Sฤซn) in the Sumerian city-state of Ur in the reign of her father, Sargon of Akkad (r. c. 2334 – c. 2279 BCE). She was likely appointed by her father as the ...
Anu (Akkadian: ๐ญ๐๐กANU, from ๐ญ an "Sky", "Heaven") or Anum, originally An (Sumerian: ๐ญAn), [ 10 ] was the divine personification of the sky, king of the gods, and ancestor of many of the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion. He was regarded as a source of both divine and human kingship, and opens the enumerations of deities in ...
Ereshkigal. In Mesopotamian mythology, Ereshkigal (Sumerian: ๐ญ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฒ D EREŠ. KI. GAL, lit. "Queen of the Great Earth") [1][2][a] was the goddess of Kur, the land of the dead or underworld in Sumerian mythology. In later myths, she was said to rule Irkalla alongside her husband Nergal. Sometimes her name is given as Irkalla ...
Nanaya's primary function was that of a goddess of love, and she was referred to as bฤlet ru'ฤmi, "lady of love". [12] The physical aspect of love was particularly strongly associated with her, and texts dedicated to her could be explicit. [13]