Sud
deity Mesopotamian single tradition · 2
Sud is a deity who appears in the myth Nanna-Suen's Journey to Nippur. In the standard version, Sud is present in the same passage where some copies include Ninirigal. It is possible in certain contexts these two deities were conflated.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 2600 BCE
- Attested period
- -2600 – -1600
- Historical notes
- Appears in some copies of the myth Nanna-Suen's Journey to Nippur.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Gula/Meme, Sudaĝ, Sudgan, Ninsudaĝ, Bau, Nunbaranna, Gibil/Girra
- parent of
- Ishum
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“Since Ninirigal appears in some of the copies of the myth Nanna-Suen's Journey to Nippur, even though in the standard version Sud is instead present in the same passage, according to Manfred Krebernik it is possible in certain contexts these two deities were conflated.”
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“Due to similarity of the names Sudaĝ and Sud, the tutelary goddess of Shuruppak equated with Ninlil, the latter appears in the role Ishum's mother in a single myth.”
#15749 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5