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Geshtinanna was a Mesopotamian goddess best known due to her role in myths about the death of Dumuzi, her brother. It is not certain what functions she fulfilled in the Mesopotamian pantheon, though her association with the scribal arts and dream interpretation is well attested. She could serve as a scribe in the underworld, where according to ...
Chamunda, sculpture in Halebid, India. Saptamatrika, in Hinduism, a group of seven mother-goddesses, each of whom is the shakti, or female counterpart, of a god. They are Brahmani (wife of Brahma ), Maheshvari (wife of Shiva ), Kaumari (wife of Kumara), Vaishnavi (wife of Vishnu ), Varahi (wife of Varaha, or the boar, an avatar [incarnation] of ...
Geshtinanna was a rural agricultural goddess sometimes associated with dream interpretation. She was the sister of Dumuzid, the god of shepherds. [359] In one myth, she protects her brother when the galla demons come to drag him down to the Underworld by hiding him in successively in four different places. [359]
Feb 23, 2011 · The Sumerian poem, The Descent of Inanna (c. 1900-1600 BCE) chronicles the journey of Inanna, the great goddess and Queen of Heaven, from her realm in the sky, to earth, and down into the underworld to visit her recently widowed sister Ereshkigal, Queen of the Dead. The poem begins famously with the lines: From the Great Above she opened her ...
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Jul 16, 2023 · G eshtinanna is a goddess in the Sumerian pantheon, who was primarily associated with fertility, vegetation, and the underworld. In Sumerian mythology, Geshtinanna is depicted as the sister of ...
Aug 24, 2014 · (gods in blue) . Geshtinanna = Sumerian . Jectinana = Assyrian . Belili = Babylonian, sometimes Ninsun, sometimes an old woman . Dumuzi-abzu = . daughter to Enki & Ninsun . very close to her older full-brother Dumuzi, tried many times to save him from death
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Aug 23, 2014 · O my brother, lad who has not fulfilled those days! ( Kish King Etana ascends to heaven / planet Nibiru, & Dumuzi the Shepherd) O my brother, shepherd Ama-ušumgal-ana ( Dumuzi), lad who has not fulfilled those days and years! O my brother, lad who has no wife, who has no children!
