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Dam-Kina, Lady-of-the-Earth.
D1M-KEN1
Alternate meanings: Lady-of-That-Which-is-Below'.
[to Whom the seventh day of May, day 127, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: Sumerian: Babylonia, especially Eridu.
According to Graves She is associated with Rhodes, before the Hittite Tesup, usurped Her, but Rhodes is a long way from Babylonia.
Linguistic Note: Either Mistress-of-the-household-of-Earth, or the simple Mother-Earth, might be better translations than the above. See Dame, linguistic notes, and Ki, below.
Description: Earth Mother; Goddess of the moon, water, earth and its fertility; {Pure Virgin}; She Who rests majestically with Her consort in the
Apsu; She Who sends forth gifts; {perhaps} Mother of the Danaans.
To Whom Sacred: . grove.
Male Associate: son, Marduk by consort Ea, of Eridu, God of waters.
- Male Associate: Titles/Variants, etc:
- Variant: Damkina.
- Greek transliteration: Daukina, below.
- Manadean equivalent: D'Mutha, see below.
- Also called: Damgal-Nunna, see below.
- Perhaps the percursor of Danae, She-Who-Judges, qv.
- Perhaps the origin of Celtic Irish Danu, qv.
- Also called, or perhaps Greek variant, Dauke, below.
- Some see in Greek Demeter, qv, a reflection of Dam-kina.
- Also called: Nin-Ki, below.
- Mother of Nina, Queen, qv Inanna.
Source: Encyc Brit v8 788d, v17 557c; Graves GMv1 6 0.3, 93.1; Graves WG 371; Larousse WM 65-66; Monaghan 76; Pritchard ANEv2 2-3.
D'Mutha, ---.
DMU31
Geography/Culture: South Babylonia: Manadean.
Male Associate:
son: Hibal-Ziva, by consort
Mana-Raba.
Source: Encyc Brit v17 557c.
Damgal-Nunna, Lady-of-the-Waters.
D1MG1L-N1N1
Alternate meanings: Great-Lady-of-the-Waters.
Geography/Culture: Sumero-Babylonian.
- Alternate name or title of Dam-Kina.
- Her surname, Nunna, recalls early Sumerian
Nammu, qv Tiamat.
Source: Encyc Brit v8 788.
Dauke, ---.
D9KA
Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: Greek orthography: &deth;aükn (Dauke).
Male Associate: consort, Haos.
- Perhaps a variant of Daukina, below, but Dauke's consort doesn't match Dam-Kina's consort as one would expect if Daukina is the Greek form of Dam-Kina.
Daukina, ---.
D9KEN1
- Greek form of the name Dam-Kina.
- Dauke, see above, may be a variant.
Nin-Ki, Lady-of-That-Which-is-Below.
NEN-KE
Geography/Culture: Babylonian.
Linguistic Note: See Nin-Kharsag linguistic notes, and Ki, below.
- Perhaps the origin of Chaldean Ki, below.
- Alternate name/title for Dam-Kina.
Source: Encyc Brit v8 788d.
Nin-Sikilla, Pure-Queen.
NEN-SEKEL*
Alternate meanings: Pure-Virgin.
Geography/Culture: Sumer, perhaps adopted by Babylonia.
Description: Goddess of the virgin world before the emergence of humanity.
Male Associate: father/consort, Enki (Ea).
- Perhaps title of Dam-Kina Whose consort is also Enki.
- {Perhaps Nin-Gikuga, see below, is a form of Her since Enki is consort of both}.
- She assumed the name of Nin-Kharsag, (qv), when about to give birth.
- Title of: Mami, qv Aruru.
- She assumed name of Nin-Tu at moment of conception, qv Aruru.
Source: Monaghan BGH 221; Larousse WM 59.
Nin-Gikuga, ---.
NEN-GEKWG*
Geography/Culture: Sumerian.
Description: Reed Goddess.
Male Associate: Consort: Enki.
- {As consort of Enki, perhaps a form of Nin-Sikilla, see above.
- Mother of Nin-Gal, qv Nikkal.
Ki, Earth.
KE
Geography/Culture: Chaldean.
Linguistic Note: {the Babylonian word ki, is believed to mean the surface of the earth. The sense of `that which is below', or `the things that are below', which it also seems to carry might then mean that which is below the sky rather than `that which is under the earth', a concept which seems to be expressed by the element gal. But see Nin-Gal linguistic notes.}
Description: Goddess of earth.
- Perhaps the origin of Phoenician Ge qv Gaia {if the Phoenicians are older than the Chaldeans - get this right! FW}.
- She was perhaps adopted by the Chaldeans from Babylonian Nin-Ki, see above.
Source: Larousse WM 65
worked on: August 14, 1990; August 6, 1991; May 1995