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Ninniĝara
Ninniĝara (also romanized as Ninnigar, Ninnigara and Ninnigarra) was a Mesopotamian goddess. She was associated with the ''niĝar'', presumed to be a special part of certain É (temple), temples dedicated to deities such as Ninisina and Inanna. It has also been proposed that she was associated with birth, healing, or both of these spheres. She is attested in sources from the Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia), Early Dynastic period, such as the Shuruppak, Fara god list and the ''Zame Hymns''. The latter indicate her cult center was Kullaba, a district of Uruk. She continued to be worshiped in the Ur III period. However, in the Old Babylonian period her name started to be used as an epithet of other deities rather than a distinct theonym. Name Ninniĝara's name was written in cuneiform as dingir, dNIN.NÌGIN or dNIN.NÌGIN.''ĝar-ra''. Additionally, in two copies of the ''Zame Hymns'' the variants ''dnin-naĝar'' and ''dnin-''SIG.E2 (according to and Jan Lisman possibly a mistak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zame Hymns
''Zame Hymns'' or ''Zami Hymns'' are a sequence of 70 Sumerian language, Sumerian hymns from the Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia), Early Dynastic period discovered in Abu Salabikh. Their conventional title is modern, and reflects the recurring use of the formula ''zame'', "praise". They are the oldest known Mesopotamian collection of hymns, and some of the oldest literary cuneiform texts overall. No copies have been discovered outside Abu Salabikh, and it is possible that they reflect a local tradition. However, partial parallels have been identified in texts associated with other sites such as Shuruppak, Fara and Kesh (Sumer), Kesh. The sequence consists of 70 hymns, each of which is dedicated to a deity associated with a specific location. Most of them belonged to the Mesopotamian pantheon, pantheon of southern Mesopotamia, with Upper Mesopotamia, northern deities being less numerous and these from more distant areas like Ebla, Mari, Syria, Mari and Susa absent altogether. Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |