Shara

deity Sumerian single tradition · 9

Shara is a southern deity whose situation is analogous to that of Bau.

↻ synthesized from 9 sources

When

First attested
3000 BCE
Attested period
-3000 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets.

Relationships

enemy of
Anzû, galla
consort of
Usaḫara, Ninura, Kumulmul, Shala
syncretized with
Adad

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Sources

Source passages

“Chaabou Shara (god)”

#3680 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“a situation analogous to that of Ningirsu as an independent deity, as well as other southern deities such as Shara and Nanshe”

#10925 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The position of "temple administrator" is only attested among the clergy of Ninura and Shara in texts from Umma. Preparation of bricks for the construction of temples of Ninura and Shara is mentioned on a tablet from the Yale Babylonian Collection”

#11244 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“A possible link between him and Shara, the tutelary god of Umma has been proposed in modern scholarship, but has yet to be conclusively proven.”

#11860 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The gods send Adad, Girra, and Shara to defeat the Anzû, but all of them fail.”

#12125 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001