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

syncretized with
Ninirigal, Ninlil
parent of
Ishum

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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.”

#11189 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“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