Nanshe
Nanshe was a deity who had a shrine called Emah ("exalted house") located in Girsu. Shul-utul was worshiped in this shrine dedicated to Nanshe.
↻ synthesized from 9 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Had a shrine called Emah in Girsu where Shul-utul was also worshiped.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Gatumdug, Gula, Ningishzida, Shulsaga, Lugalurub, Ishum, Asalluhi, Nina, lamma, Nin-MAR.KI, Ishtar of Nineveh, Ninsun, Haya, Ningublaga, Ištaran, Ara, Igalim, Shulshaga, Urnunta-ea, Ḫegirnuna, Lugalirra, Ninmug, Meslamtaea, Ninisina, Ninkarrak, SI.A-tum, Ninsianna, Ninegal, Ningal, Sebitti, Inanna, Shul-utul, Ninshubur, Nergal, Zababa, Anu, Utu, Sin, Nisaba, Bau, Enlil, Ninhursag, Ninurta, Enki, Shara, Ištar, Išḫara, Annunitum, Dagan, Aya
- parent of
- Nin-MAR.KI
- sibling of
- Ningirsu
- allied with
- Dumuzi-abzu, Hendursaga, Ningirima, Shul-utula, Nammu, Ningirsu, Geshtinanna
- consort of
- Nindara
- served by
- Hendursaga
- child of
- Damgalnuna, Enki
Mentioned by
- Inanna
- Shul-utul
- Ninshubur
- Nergal
- Zababa
- Anu
- Utu
- Sin
- Nisaba
- Bau
- Enlil
- Ninhursag
- Ninurta
- Enki
- Shara
- Ištar
and 8 more
Sources
Source passages
“He was also worshiped in Emah (Sumerian: "exalted house"), a shrine of Nanshe located in Girsu.”
#10484 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“a situation analogous to that of Ningirsu as an independent deity, as well as other southern deities such as Shara and Nanshe”
#10926 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Other deities invoked in it are Anu, Enlil, Ninhursag, Enki, Sin, Ningirsu, Nanshe, Nindara, Gatumdug, Bau, Inanna, Utu, Hendursaga, Igalim and Shulshaga.”
#10995 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Lagash itself as well as in NINA (during festivals of its city goddess Nanshe), but not in Girsu, the city associated with Bau, who in turn did not receive offerings in the former two of these three cities. The construction of a temple dedicated to Gatumdug is mentioned in the inscriptions of Ur-Nanshe, Eannatum and Entemena”
#11012 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In Ur in the Old Babylonian period, Nanshe came to be integrated into the circle of deities associated with Ningal, the wife of the moon god. In the Gula Hymn of Bulluṭsa-rabi, Nanshe is among the deities equated with the eponymous goddess.”
#11229 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001