Nintur

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Nintur is a goddess listed alongside Ninhursag, Dingirmah, Ninmah and Aruru in the An = Anum god list. It is uncertain whether these were all regarded as variant names for the same goddess or different goddesses with similar functions.

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When

First attested: 3000 BCE
Attested period: -3000 – 2020
Historical notes: Attested in sources from the third millennium BCE.

Relationships

co occurs with: Ningirsu, Bēlet-ilī, Lisin, Ashgi, Panigingarra, Nin-dingir-re-e-ne, Ninmena, Mama, Lillu, Šulpae, Enlil
syncretized with: Ninmah, Ninhursag, Dingirmah, Aruru

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Sources

wikipedia (2)

Source passages

“Another theory posits that, along with the goddess Nintur, she was the birth goddess of wild and domesticated animals. Her connection to the biological process of childbirth in worship is suspected to have developed later, as she began to by syncretized with other 'birth-goddesses', and took on her Bēlet-ilī name.”
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“In the Nippur god list, Šulpae is followed by Ninhursag and eight other goddesses of similar character: Nin-dingir-re-e-ne, Ninmah, Nintur, Ninmena, Aruru, Dingirmaḫ, Mama (not to be confused with Mammitum) and Belet-ili”
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