Nintinugga
Nintinugga is a healing goddess. Bau was not associated with dogs, unlike Nintinugga and other healing goddesses.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested from the third millennium BCE.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ninkarrak, Damu, Gunura, Šumaḫ, Ninarali, Ninigizibara, Ninḫinuna, Urash, Gugalana, Nam-tar, Ereshkigal, Nungal, Birtum, Manungal, Ninkasi, Pabilsag, Siras, Bēlet-balāṭi, Dullum, Nindumgul, Igalimma, Eḫ, Bizila, Kurunnītu, Nin-Isina, Bau, Inanna, Ninshubur, Meme, Enlil, Gula, Anu, Nergal, Lases, Ningirsu
- allied with
- Ereshkigal, Nungal
- syncretized with
- Ninisina
Mentioned by
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.”
#10894 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In Nippur, Ninisina came to be associated with Nintinugga, and both of them were referred to with the epithet Nintilaʾuga, "the one who revives the dead" there. Additionally, both of them were associated with Damu and Gunura.”
#11317 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In Sumerian mythology, Ereshkigal is the mother of the goddess Nungal. In a fragmentary text translated by Jeremiah Peterson, Nungal appears alongside Ereshkigal and the healing goddess Nintinugga.”
#12524 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“A fragmentary literary texts associates her with Nintinugga and Ereshkigal.”
#37168 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001