Ninkarrak
Ninkarrak is a healing goddess. Bau was not associated with dogs, unlike Ninkarrak and other healing goddesses.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested from the third millennium BCE.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Gunura, Šumaḫ, Ninarali, Ninigizibara, Ninḫinuna, Ilaba, Manzat, Shullat, Hanish, Umshu, dšu-nir, Ningal, Ninkar, Itūr-Mēr, Yakrub-El, Tishpak, Numushda, Ḫanat, Geshtinanna, SI.A-tum, bašmu, ḫulmiẓẓu, Ninmug, Ishum, Lugala'abba, Abzumaḫ, Bau, Nintinugga, Inanna, Ninshubur, Meme, Ninurta, Shamash, Sin, Nergal, Ninhursag, Nisaba, Dagan, Allani, Shara, Ningirsu, Nanshe
- consort of
- Pabilsag
- parent of
- Damu
- syncretized with
- Ninisina, NIN-ĝa'uga, Išḫara
Mentioned by
- Bau
- Nintinugga
- Inanna
- Ninshubur
- Meme
- Ninurta
- Shamash
- Sin
- Nergal
- Ninhursag
- Nisaba
- Dagan
- Allani
- Shara
- Ningirsu
- Nanshe
and 3 more
Sources
Source passages
“Thorkild Jacobsen's proposal that it was "an imitation of dog's bark, as English 'bowwow'" is regarded as erroneous today, as unlike other healing goddesses (Gula, Ninisina, Nintinugga and Ninkarrak) Bau was not associated with dogs.”
#10895 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“While the healing goddesses of the Mesopotamian pantheon - Ninisina, Nintinugga (associated with Nippur), Ninkarrak (worshiped especially in Terqa and Sippar ), Gula (possibly originally from Umma), Meme and Bau - were initially separate deities, they were at times either partially conflated or treated as equivalents of each other.”
#11306 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“A curse accompanying this inscription invokes Ilaba alongside a large number of other deities, such as Sin, Nergal, Ninkarrak, Ninhursag and Nisaba. Ilaba is also one of the five Mesopotamian deities mentioned in a treaty between Naram-Sin and an unknown ruler of Elam, the other four being Išḫara, Manzat, Ninkarrak and Ninurta.”
#11716 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Westenholz proposed that Ninkar in Eblaite texts should be interpreted as Ninkarrak rather than the phonetically similar but less well attested Mesopotamian Ninkar. She pointed out occasional shortening of Ninkarrak's name to "Ninkar".”
#15753 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“In an offering list from the reign of Zimri-Lim, Ḫanat appears as the recipient of two sheep. The same document lists a number of other deities worshiped in Mari, such as Numushda, Ishara and Ninkarrak.”
#23302 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001