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Sylvia Rose
Feb 5, 20245 min read
Ningizibara: Sumerian Balaĝ Music Goddess
Ningizibara (Igizibara, Ningizippara) is a Mesopotamian goddess associated with the balaĝ musical instrument. She can manifest as the...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 5, 20248 min read
Hymn to Nungal - Prison Goddess
Nungal is the ancient Sumerian goddess of prisons. She has the ability to separate the guilty from the innocent. When one escapes the...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 3, 20243 min read
Mamu - Sumerian Goddess of Dreams
Mamu (Mamud) is a goddess of dreams in ancient Mesopotamia. Daughter of dawn goddess Aya and sun god Shamash (Utu), she may be called the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 31, 20243 min read
Sonne - Sun Goddess of Germania
Sun worship is a prehistoric nature religion. An organized cult and mythology appear in Egypt c. 1400 BCE. Worship of the Sun as a...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 22, 20245 min read
Inara & the Dragon - Purulliya Festival
Inara is the goddess of wild animals, hills and forests in Hittite mythology. The Purulliya Festival of spring comes from an older Hatti...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 18, 20243 min read
Hannahanna - Great Grandmother Goddess
Hannahanna is the great grandmother goddess of the Hittites. She features in several myths usually following the exploits of her...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 14, 20242 min read
Urash (Uraš) Primal Queen of the Gods
Urash (Uraš) is the wife of Anu, the oldest god. A personification of the Earth, she is Yin to the Yang Sky God. Although Anu has other...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 8, 20243 min read
Potnia: Mystery Goddess of Ancient Greece
Found as far back as the early Proto-Indo-European language c 4500 - 2500 BCE, the name Potnia has been interpreted as a Goddess, a group...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 6, 20243 min read
Despoina - Goddess of the Mysteries
Her home is Arcadia, a pastoral idyllic land of cypress and sunshine. Her father Poseidon, is lord of groundwater, earthquakes and...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 5, 20244 min read
Erinyes - Vengeful Women of Ancient Greece
The Erinyes (Erinys, Eumenides) are goddesses of vengeance in Ancient Greece. They're later called the Furies. They're described dressed...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 3, 20243 min read
Aruru - Violent Vegetation Goddess
Aruru is a Goddess of vegetation, portrayed with a nasty yen for violence. Her major cult centers are Sumerian sites Adab (Bismaya), Kesh...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 3, 20245 min read
Nungal (Manungal) Prison Goddess
Nungal (Manungal) is a goddess of prisons in Mesopotamia. She can be empathetic or merciless. She's especially popular in the Ur III...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 31, 20233 min read
Gatumdug: Sumerian Goddess of Lagash
Gatumdug is an ancient Sumerian goddess and patron deity of the busy city state of Lagash, Mesopotamia. Read: Cult of the Fire God -...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 30, 20232 min read
Bizilla - Shining Love Goddess Sukkal
Bizilla (Bizila) is a Mesopotamian goddess sukkal to the great matriarch and Queen of the Gods, Ninlil. Her name Bizilla means she who is...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 30, 20233 min read
Ninlil - Sumerian Matriarch Goddess
Ninlil is Queen of the Gods and wife of Creator God Enlil. A senior matriarch of the Mesopotamian pantheon, Ninlil holds a position of...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 27, 20235 min read
Lisin - Medicine Goddess of Ancients
Her mother is a mountain goddess, her father a demon god. The only female prodigy of the family, she later evolves into a male fire god....
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 24, 20234 min read
Ninhursag - Great Mountain Mother
A mother goddess of ancient Mesopotamia, Ninhursag is one of the original seven dieties or 'those who decree', called the Anunnaki. She...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 21, 20234 min read
Bau - Healing Goddess of Babylonia
Bau is a Mesopotamian goddess associated with healing and health, medicine, protection, personal guidance or guardianship. She's tutelary...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 19, 20235 min read
Dumuzi & Geshtinanna: Reasons for Seasons
Dumuzi (Dumu-zid, Dumuzid) and Geshtinanna are brother and sister deities in ancient Mesopotamia (today's Iraq). Dumuzi, a god of...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 18, 20236 min read
Gula - Medicine Goddess of Mesopotamia
Her name means 'the great' in Sumerian. Gula is a Mesopotamian goddess whose worship becomes widespread in the second millennium BCE....
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