Baba (goddess)
Baba (also called Ba'u ; ba-u 2 , where the character u 2 can also be read as ba 6 ) is a Sumerian mother goddess and city goddess of Lagaš and Girsu . She was the daughter of Gatumdu and thus the granddaughter of the supreme god of the Sumerian pantheon , An , who is also considered to be her father in part. Her husband was the state god of Lagaš, Ningirsu . Both have seven daughters.
Originally, Baba was probably a local mother goddess . She was especially venerated in Lagaš, but there was also a large temple in Ur . Sometimes she is called "Lady of Abundance". Later she was equated with the goddesses Gula and Nin'insina and worshiped as a healing deity far beyond Lagash's borders . She is sometimes considered the wife of Ninurta.
literature
- Helmut Freydank among others: Lexicon Alter Orient. Egypt * India * China * Western Asia. VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-928127-40-3 .
- Brigitte Groneberg : The gods of the Mesopotamia. Cults, myths, epics. Artemis & Winkler, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7608-2306-8 .