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Aruru, {Bright-Mother-of-the-Hollow}.
*RWRW
[to Whom the sixteenth day of January, day 015, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: Sumerian, Babylonian. Her name is mentioned in a (Babylonian) cuneiform version of the Gilgamesh epic circa 1750 BCE. Internal evidence suggests the text is a copy of an Akkadian composition circa 2100-2000 BCE. A neo-Babylonian text from Eridu mentions Her.
Description: Almighty gentle Mother; Goddess of earth and birth; Creatrix of the seed of humanity; Creatrix of humanity from Her own muddy substance; She Who takes the clay of creatures in Her fingers; She Who washes Her hands before She pinches off clay; {Matron of figure representation and potters}.
To Whom Sacred: {pottery}; the numbers 2, 7, 14; baked birth-brick.
Male Associates: She is said to have produced with Marduk, the seeds of humanity; from clay She created the hero Gilgamesh, and subsequently his double Enkidu. They were conceived after the image of Anu.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Perhaps also called Amadubad, ----, below.
- Transliteration variant: Aru.
- If the meaning of Her name is correct She may be distantly related to Thracian Cotytto, Cup-of-Life, Who is linked to Bendis, Wave-of-the-Deep.
- She seems to resemble Eve, Mother-of-All-Living.
- Title of Mami, Mother, below.
- Title: Nagar-Saga, Framer-of-the-Fetus, Who is linked with Ossipago, Bone-Strengthener.
- Nin-Kharsag, Mountain-Queen, is also called Aruru, {Bright-Mother-of-the-Hollow}.
- She may be identical with Zarpanit, Silver-Shining,
Source: Graves GM; Gray NEM 41; Kaster PCMD 117; Mackenzie MBA 160; Monaghan BGH 28, 190; Pritchard ANEv1 40, 41-42; ibid ANEv2 159; Walker WEMS; NLEM 54.
Amadubad, ----.
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Geography/Culture:
Description:
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Perhaps a title or aspect of Aruru, {Bright-Mother-of-the-Hollow}. above.
- Alternate name for Mami, Mother, below.
Source: Monaghan BGH 190.
Mami, Mother.
M*ME
Geography/Culture: Sumerian, Babylonian. [Assyrian for sure].
Description: All mighty All-Mother; Lapis crowned Creatress and Queen of earth; Creatress of the seed of humankind; Sorceress; She Whose name is called upon by women during labour; She Who was assisted by Nammu, The-Sea, in forming the human-race.
She subsequently became a warrior Goddess; protectress of fields and their harvest.
Invocations, Pleas, Hymns and Other Homage to HER: Mami.
To Whom Sacred: a corner in every tilled field left wild in Her honour; lion (which in later times She is portrayed as standing or riding on); clay; lapis; baked-brick (used as a pillow by Sumerian women when giving-birth and thereby sharing in Her power); the numbers 7 and 14 (the number of self-images She formed of clay at creation, 7 becoming women and 7 men); fanatici (Her eunuch priests who danced to trumpet and tambourine, wounding themselves in Her honour).
Male Associates: son Ninurta; consort Ea-Ninigiku.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- {Transliteration?} variant: Ama.
- Also called Amadubad, ----, above.
- She is also called Aruru. Bright-Mother-of-the-Hollow, above. 1/190.
- Her fanatici seem to relate Her to Cybele, She-with-the-Axe, and Her Galloi.
- Perhaps also called Ma, Mother, {if Ma is different from Mami, Mother}.
- A later form of Her is known as Cappadocian Mah, Great-Goddess--.
- She became Roman Bellona, {Lady-of-War}.
- Variant
Mama
, or perhaps a variant of Ma.
- Possibly Her name is a variant of, {or at least philologically related to} Mammetum, ----, below.
- Perhaps title Nagar-Saga, Frammer-of-the-Fetus, Who is linked with Ossipagom, Bone-Strengthener. {According to source BGH 212, this is also (ie: not perhaps) a title of Mama.}
- Also called
Nin-Mah
, Lady-Mother.
- Title Nin-Dum, Lady-of-Procreation, below.
- Title Nin-Sikilla, Pure-Queen, Who is linked with Dam-Kina, Lady-of-the-Earth.
- She was assisted in the forming of humanity by Summerian Nammu, The-Sea, Who is linked with Tiamat, Primeval-Being, (perhaps with Her waters).
Source: Mackenzie MBA 57; 1 Monaghan BGH 90; 2 Pritchard ANEv2 22, 24. 1/190. 1/191
Mamitu, ----.
M*METW
Geography/Culture: ?
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Variant, or alternate name for Cappadocian Ma, Mother, Who is linked with Bellona, Lady-of-War.
- Perhaps a variant of
Mammetum
, ----, below,
Mammetum, ----.
M*MATUM
Geography/Culture: Babylonian.
Description: Maker of fate; She who determines life and death, "...but of death, its days She does not reveal".
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Perhaps varianat Mamitu, ----, above.
Source: ANEv1/65.
Nin-Dum, Lady-of-Procreation.
NYNDUM
Geography/Culture: Sumerian, Babylonian.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Title of Mami, Mother, above.
Source: Monaghan BGH 191, 219.
Nin-Mah, {Great-Lady}.
NYNM*
Geography/Culture: Summerian, Babylonian.
Male Associate: Her son Ninurta, named Her queen of a mountain, hursag, he had heaped up.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Then this must be a form of Nin-Kharsag, Mountain-Queen.
- Probably a variant of Nin-Makh, Great-Lady, below.
Source: ARAS 2Bd.011.
Nin-Makh, Great-Lady.
NYN-M*X
Alternate meaning: Lady-Mother.
Geography/Culture: Sumerian, Babylonian.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Alternate name for, or title of, Mami, Mother, above.
- Alternate name for, or title of Nin-Kharsag, Lady-of-the-Mountain.
- Title of Nin-Lil, Lady-of-Power, Who is linked with Zarpanit, Silver-Shining.
- Probably a variant of Nin-Mah, {Great-Lady}, above.
Source: Prichard ANEv1 28; Monaghan BGH 221.
Nin-Ti, Lady-of-the-Rib-of-Life.
NYN-TY
Geography/Culture: Sumerian, Babylonian.
Description: Goddess of childbirth.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Daughter of Nin-Kharsag, Lady-of-the-Mountain.
- Probably variant of Nin-Tu, Lady-Life-Giver,
below.
Nin-Tu, Lady-Life-Giver.
NYN-TW
Alternate meanings: Lady-of-the-Womb, Lady-of-the-Land.
Geography/Culture: Sumerian, Babylonian.
Description: Goddess of the earth, conception and childbirth; Matron of procreation; the Pure-Virgin; Serpent Goddess.
{She really doesn't seem to be in the right place}
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Mah, Great-Goddess, (Who is linked with Roman Bellona, Lady-of-War), is explicitly identified with Nin-Tu. {There is information currently under Mah, Who is linked with Roamn Bellona, Lady-of-War. But the proper cross-reference may be more appropriately Aruru, {Bright-Mother-of-the-Hollow}. above}.
- As Creatrix Bau, Space, (Who is linked with Gula-Bau, Great-Physician), is identified with Her.
- It is said that the name of Hannahannas, Grandmother, is ideologically written: Nin.Tu, presumably another transliteration variant. {But I must say I really do not understand what this means.}
- Variant
Nin-Tud
, NYN-T1D.
- Variant
Nin-tur
.
- Perhaps variant of Nin-Ti, Lady-of-the-Rib-of-Life, above.
- Title of Nin-Kharsag, Queen-of-the-Mountain. {Some confusion here, clarify}.
- Nin-Sikilla, Pure-Queen, (Who is linked with Dam-Kina, Lady-of-the-Earth), assumed this name at the moment of conception.
- Variant:
Nintu
.
- Also called
Sentu
, ----.
Source: Funk & Wagnall SDFML 122; Larousse WM 59, 61; T.THG/274, 287.
worked on: December, August, May 1995; April 1992; August, February 1991; July 1990.
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